The Bua languages are a subgroup of the Mbum-Day branch of the Savanna languages within the Niger-Congo family, spoken by fewer than 30,000 people in an area of southern Chad stretching between the Chari River and the Guera Massif. The group comprises ten languages, Bua, Fanian, Niellim, Tunia, Noy, Gula Iro, Zan Gula, Bon Gula, Koke and Bolgo, several of whose dialects are now extinct; all are tonal languages with distinctive vowel length and nasal vowels, and most have lost the Niger-Congo noun class system while retaining traces of it in their complex plural formation.
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Partially Attested
Speaker Countsource gives an upper bound, "fewer than 30,000", not an exact figure Regionsouthern Chad between the Chari River and the Gu\u00e9ra Massif 1 Bua languages
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Bua is a branch of Mbum-Day (Mbum-Day is part of Adamawa within Niger-Congo), grouping languages spoken mainly in southern Chad.
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1. Bua languages - Wikipedia
Wikipedia, Introduction
southern Chad in an area stretching roughly between the Chari River and the Gu\u00e9ra Massif
Wikipedia, Speaker population section
spoken by fewer than 30,000 people in southern Chad
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