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| Dulbu | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Bauchi State |
Native speakers | 0 (2019) |
Niger–Congo?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dbo |
| Glottolog | dulb1238 |
| ELP | Dulbu |
Dulbu is an extinct Jarawan Bantu language of Nigeria. Speakers have since shifted to Hausa.
Extinction
[edit source]In 2019, Dulbu was found to be extinct. K. Shimizu's word list of Dulbu from around the 1980s is thus the only word list available.[1]
References
[edit source]- ↑ Blench, Roger. 2024. The Jarawan Bantu languages in Nigeria; what is new research telling us? 7 June 2024, 2nd Conference on Bantoid Languages and Linguistics (Bantoid II), Yaoundé.