Yipunu

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Yipunu is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Punu people of Gabon and neighboring regions in Central Africa.

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Yipunu canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
spoken language
alternateName Ipunu
Pounou
Punu
Yipounou
closelyRelatedTo Yipunu-related Bantu languages of southern Gabon
continent Africa
country Gabon
ethnicGroup Punu people
geographicDistribution Central Africa
glottologCode yipu1240
hasFeature agglutinative morphology
noun class system
tone language
iso639-3Code puu
languageBranch Atlantic–Congo languages
Benue–Congo languages
Niger–Congo languages
Southern Bantu languages
languageFamily Bantu languages
linguisticTypology SVO basic word order
macrolanguage Punu languages
neighboringLanguages Yipunu dialects and related Bantu varieties in Gabon
primaryRegion Gabon
region Ngounié Province
Nyanga Province
southwestern Gabon
spokenIn Central Africa
Gabon
Republic of the Congo
status regional language in Gabon
subfamily Narrow Bantu
usedBy Punu community
usedFor cultural expression
daily communication
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Punu hasAlternativeName Yipunu