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 toGabon,Republic of Congo
RegionCentral Africa
EthnicityPunu
Native speakers
166,000 (2007)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3puu
Glottologpunu1239[2]
B.43[3]


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

See also

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
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