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Bure
Bure
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Bauchi State
Ethnicity	500 (no date)
Native speakers	20 (2011)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Chadic Bole–Angas Bole–Tangale (A.2) Bole (North) Bure; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bvh
Glottolog	bure1242
ELP	Bure

Bure, also known as Bubbure, is an Afro-Asiatic language belonging to the Bole-Tangale group of the West branch of the Chadic family. It is spoken in northern Nigeria in the village of Bure (10°31’06.16”N, 10°20’03.00”E, Kirfi Local Government, Bauchi State, Nigeria) and in some small settlements nearby.^[2] The language is used mostly by a very few speakers, of great-grandparental generation. Except for Hausa, which is lingua franca in the area, Bure is surrounded by other Chadic languages such as Gera, Giiwo and Deno (Bole group).^[3]^[4]^[5]

Compared to other languages of the same group (e.g. Bole or Karai-Karai), the endangerment of Bure is by far the most critical.^[6]

References edit

^ ^a ^b Bure at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ Batic, Gian Claudio (2023). "Grammatical Sketch of Bure" (published 2014). ISBN 978-3896455284. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Batic, Gian Claudio (2023). "Documenting Bure, a Chadic Language of Northern Nigeria: the Clause Structure" (published 2013). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Batic, Gian Claudio (2023). "Documenting Bure, a Chadic Language of Northern Nigeria: the Clause Structure" (published 2011). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Batic, Gian Claudio (2023). "The Bure Language: an Overview" (published 2011). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Haruna, Andrew (2023). "Language Death: The case of Bubburè in Southern Bauchi Area, Northern Nigeria" (published 2000). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)