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Guru language

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Native to
  
South Sudan

ISO 639-3
  
bqu

Extinct
  
(date missing)

Glottolog
  
bogu1241

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

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Boan Bomokandian Ngendan? 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