Budu Dogon or ''Bunoge'', also known as Korandabo, is a recently discovered
Dogon language
The Dogon languages are a small closely related language family that is spoken by the Dogon people of Mali and may belong to the proposed Niger–Congo family. There are about 600,000 speakers of its dozen languages. They are tonal languages, a ...
spoken in
Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east b ...
. It was first reported onlin
The plural suffix on nouns is closest to
Kolum so
Mombo Dogon is a Dogon language spoken in Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country i ...
, suggesting it should be classified as a West Dogon language.
The people call themselves ''Budu'', and
Tɔmmɔ-sɔ speakers call the language ''Budu-sɔ''. It has also been called ''Budu-Tagu'', the name of the principal Budu village.
References
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External links
Bunoge wordlist(Dendo and Blench, 2005)
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Dogon languages
Languages of Mali