Buru–Angwe_language

Buru–Angwe language

Buru–Angwe language

Southern Bantoid language of Nigeria

Not to be confused with Buru language (Indonesia) or Buru dialect of Ngelima.

Buru and Angwe constitute a potentially rather divergent Southern Bantoid language spoken in Sardauna LGA, Taraba State of Nigeria.

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Buru is the language of a village near where Batu is spoken, east of Baissa.[2] Angwe had previously been assumed to be Batu, a Tivoid language, but turns out to be the same language as Buru. There are resemblances to Tivoid, though apart from sharing some lexical items with Northwest Tivoid, presumably due to contact, there is little evidence to classify it. It is treated as an isolate within Bantoid by Blench (2016).[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Buru–Angwe at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  3. [3]
    Roger Blench (15 September 2016). "The Tivoid languages: overview and comparative wordlist" (PDF). p. 14.


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