Bulu language

Bulu
Bulu
Bulu-Bene
Bulu (Nkobô Bulu)
Region	Cameroon
Ethnicity	Bulu people
Native speakers	860,000 (2007)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone A) Beti Bulu; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Bulu; Bene;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bum
Glottolog	bulu1251
Guthrie code	A.74

Bulu is a Bantu language of the Bulu people of Cameroon. The language had 174,000 native speakers in 1982, with some 800,000 second language speakers in 1991. Its dialects include Bene, Yelinda, Yembana, Yengono, and Zaman. Bulu was formerly used by colonial and missionary groups as a lingua franca in the region for commercial, educational, and religious purposes, though it is today becoming less frequent in those spheres.

Bulu belongs to the group of Beti languages and is intelligible with Eton, Ewondo, and Fang.

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