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Dulbu language

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Dulbu
Native toNigeria
RegionBauchi State
Native speakers
0 (2019)
Language codes
ISO 639-3dbo
Glottologdulb1238
ELPDulbu

Dulbu is an extinct Jarawan Bantu language of Nigeria. Speakers have since shifted to Hausa.

Extinction

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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

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  1. 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.