Bole_language Knowpia

Pìkkà^[2]
Pìkkà
People	Am Pìkkà
Language	Bòò Pìkkà

Bole
Bole
bòo pìkkà
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Bauchi State, Gombe State, Yobe State, Plateau State
Native speakers	250,000 (2023)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Chadic Bole–Angas Bole–Tangale (A.2) Bole (North) Bole; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Bara; Fika;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bol
Glottolog	nucl1695

Bole (bòo pìkkà,^[3] also known as Bolanchi, Ampikka, Bopikka, Bolewa, Bolawa) is a West Chadic language spoken in Nigeria. Dialects include Bara and Fika, spoken in the Fika Emirate.^[1]

Writing System edit

Bole alphabet^[4]
A	B	Ɓ	C	D	Ɗ	E	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O	P	R	S	T	U	V	W	Y	ʼY	Z
a	b	ɓ	c	d	ɗ	e	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	r	s	t	u	v	w	y	ʼy	z

Notes edit

^ ^a ^b Bole at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
^ Schuh, Russell G. (October 1996). "Dymitr Ibriszimow and Alhaji Maina Gimba (ed.): Bole language and documentation Unit (BOLDU), Report I. (Westafrikanische Studien. Frankfurter Beiträge zur Sprachund Kulturgeschichte, Bd. 7.) 137 pp. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 1994. DM 32". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 59 (3): 620–621. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00031323. ISSN 1474-0699.
^ Maina Gimba, Alhaji; Baba Ali, Malam; Bah, Madu (2009). Schuh, Russell G. (ed.). Bole-English-Hausa Dictionary and English-Bole Wordlist. Potiskum: Ajami Press. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0012-7677-1, p. iv.

Further reading edit

Alhaji Maina Gimba. 2000. "Bole Verb Morphology," University of California, Los Angeles PhD dissertation.
Bole-English-Hausa dictionary Archived 2018-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
English-Bole Wordlist Archived 2018-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
Papers and Other Works on Bole from UCLA Archived 2016-12-19 at archive.today
OLAC resources in and about the Bole language