Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 bum
Bulu (Cameroon) Language Nkobô Bulu
Bulu (Cameroon) is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 1.3 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Bulu (Cameroon) is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Bulu (Cameroon)
About the Bulu (Cameroon) language
Bulu (Cameroon) (Nkobô Bulu) is spoken by about 1.3 million people, which makes it the 406th most spoken language in the world — just behind Northern Betsimisaraka Malagasy (1.3 million) and ahead of Emilian (1.3 million). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Yaunde-Fang (A.70) group within the Benue-Congo branch.
Where is Bulu (Cameroon) spoken?
Bulu (Cameroon) is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Cameroon (1.4 million).
Bulu (Cameroon) is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Bulu (Cameroon) is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Swahili, Lingala, Zulu, Chichewa, Tsonga, Kinyarwanda and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 bum.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.