Bulu

Bulu is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Cameroon, by about 860 thousand people.

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Bulu · 3.2°N 11.6°E

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.

From Wikipedia · Bulu language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Written down

Abiali bod bese, tege ai sesala, bene etie dzia a mis memvende y'enyiñ, dzom dzia etu fili nkóbó, fili ntsogan, fili mboan. Ve abiali te, mod ose ayem dze ene abe, dze ene mbeñ asu e mod mbog antoa ai mfi na enyiñ ewulu mezen mene sosoo.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).

Words in Bulu

Meaning	Word	Romanization
man	fam
woman	minga
person	t*
name	joe*
eye	is*
ear	lo*
nose	joe*
tooth	so5*
tongue	yem*
blood	tThi*
bone	ves*
skin	kop*
knee	bo5*
breast	be*
liver	sa5*
water	mendim
fire	duan*
sun	an*
star	tete*
stone	kok*
mountain	kol*
tree	le*
leaf	kai*
night	lu*
dog	vu*
fish	kos*
louse	yin*
one	fok*
two	ebae*
drink	nyu*