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Guru language

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Native to
  
ISO 639-3
  
bqu

Extinct
  
(date missing)

Glottolog
  
bogu1241

Ethnicity
  
490 refugees in Congo (1997), now returned to South Sudan

Language family
  
Niger–CongoAtlantic–CongoBenue–CongoBantoidBantuBoanBomokandianNgendan?Guru

Guru, or Boguru, is a poorly documented South Sudanese Bantu language of uncertain affiliation (though listed as unclassified Zone D.30 by Guthrie). For a while, a number of speakers were refugees in DR Congo, but the language is apparently now extinct there as well.

References

Guru language Wikipedia


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