Bube

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Bube is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Bubi people on Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form Occurrences
Bube-Bubi 1
Northern Bube 1
Southern Bube 1

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
language
alternateName Bube
surface form: Bube-Bubi

Bubi
associatedPeople Bubi people
belongsToSubgroup Northwest Bantu
surface form: Northwestern Bantu languages
continent Africa
country Equatorial Guinea
ethnicGroup Bubi people
glottologCode bube1242
hasDialects Central Bube
Bube self-linksurface differs
surface form: Northern Bube

Bube self-linksurface differs
surface form: Southern Bube
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature noun class system
hasWordOrder SVO
iso639-3Code bvb
languageBranch Bantu languages
languageFamily Niger–Congo languages
languageOf Bubi people
neighboringLanguages Fang
Pichi
primaryLocation Bioko Island
region Central Africa
spokenIn Equatorial Guinea
spokenOn Bioko Island
status minority language
usedIn local cultural practices
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (4)

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

Bube alternateName Bube
this entity surface form: Bube-Bubi
Bube hasDialects Bube self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Northern Bube
Bube hasDialects Bube self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Southern Bube