Punu language

Yipunu is a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Republic of Gabon and the Republic of Congo by several thousand people, mainly of the Punu and Ghisir ethnic groups, the largest of the four major ethnic groups in Gabon. Yipunu 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	Punu
Native speakers	166,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone B) Sira Punu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	puu
Glottolog	punu1239[2]
Guthrie code	B.43[3]

Rimba is sometimes considered to be a dialect, but its lexicon is divergent.

See also

• Rimba language

References

1. Punu at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Punu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online