Biyanda-Buli language
| Biyanda-Buli | |
|---|---|
| Southwest Gbaya | |
| Native to | Central African Republic |
Native speakers |
200,000 (2007)[1] Includes Toongo |
| Dialects |
Biyanda
Buli
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
gso (partial) |
| Glottolog |
sout2785[2] |
Biyanda (Ɓìyàndà) and Buli (Ɓùlì) constitute a Gbaya language of the Central African Republic. Ethnologue groups them as Southwest Gbaya, but it is not clear how many of the Southwest varieties are part of the same language; Toongo and Mbodomo, for example, are not closely related, though Toongo speakers identify ethnically as Buli, and Ethnologue also lists Mbodomo as a separate language.
References
- ↑ Biyanda-Buli at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Southwest Gbaya". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.