Punu language
Yipunu also known as isira , is a Niger-Congo language spoken in Republic of Gabon and Republic of Congo by several thousand people, mainly of the Punu and Ghisir people, the largest of the four major ethnic groups in Gabon. Ypunu has about 120 thousand native speakers, mainly from the southern Region, including 8 thousand speakers in southern French Congo. It is classified as B.43 in the Guthrie classification.
| Punu | |
|---|---|
| Bapunu | |
| Native to | Gabon,Republic of Congo |
| Region | Central Africa |
| Ethnicity | Bapunu people |
Native speakers | 166,000 (2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | puu |
| Glottolog | punu1239[2] |
B.43[3] | |
Rimba is sometimes considered to be a dialect, but its lexicon is divergent.
See also
References
- Punu at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Punu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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