Busa, or Bisã, is the Mande language of the former Borgu Emirate in northwestern Nigeria and northern Benin. It is called Busanci in Hausa, and has also...
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Is from Bissa Bissam Baa Kamaji house. Busa language (Mande) Boko language Kyenga language Shanga language Bissa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
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both. Mande Southeast Mande Southern Mande (Dan, Mano, etc.) Eastern Mande (Bisa, Busa, etc.) West Mande Central West (Manding–Kpelle) Central Mande Susu–Yalunka...
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Look up busa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Busa or BUSA may refer to: Busa language (Mande), Africa Busa language (Papuan), New Guinea British Underwater...
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Boko, or Boo, is a Mande language of Benin and Nigeria. Boko is the best-known name of this language, but it is also known as Boo or by its Hausa exonym...
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Eastern Mande languages (called Eastern Eastern Mande by Kastenholz, and Niger–Volta by Schreiber and also known as the Bisa–Busa languages) are a branch...
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hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages (which share...
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branches represented in Nigeria are Mande, Atlantic, Gur, Kwa, Benue–Congo and Adamawa–Ubangi. Mande is represented by the Busa cluster and Kyenga in the northwest...
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families. The classifications below follow Glottolog. Mande, some 70 languages, including the major languages of Mali and Guinea; these are generally thought...
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Bissa people (category Mandé people)
a Mande ethnic group of south-central Burkina Faso, northeastern Ghana and the northernmost tip of Togo. Their language, Bissa, is a Mande language that...
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