Bukusu dialect

Bukusu
Bukusu
Lubukusu
Native to	Kenya
Ethnicity	Bukusu
Native speakers	1.4 million (2009 census)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu Masaba–Luhya Masaba Bukusu; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bxk
Glottolog	buku1249
Guthrie code	JE.31c

Bukusu is a dialect of the Masaba language spoken by the Bukusu tribe of the Luhya people of western Kenya. It is one of several ethnically Luhya dialects; however, it is more closely related to the Gisu dialect of Masaaba in eastern Uganda (and to the other Luhya dialect of Tachoni) than it is to other languages spoken by the Luhya.

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