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(Redirected from Bole language (Chadic)) Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria Not to be confused with Dibole language.
Bole
bòo pìkkà
Native toNigeria
RegionBauchi State, Gombe State, Yobe State, Plateau State
Native speakers250,000 (2023)
Language familyAfro-Asiatic
Dialects
  • Bara
  • Fika
Language codes
ISO 639-3bol
Glottolognucl1695
Pìkkà
PeopleAm Pìkkà
LanguageBòò Pìkkà

Bole (bòo pìkkà, also known as Bolanchi, Ampikka, Bopikka, Bolewa, Bolawa) is a West Chadic language spoken in Nigeria. Dialects include Bara and Fika, spoken in the Fika Emirate..

Writing System

Bole alphabet
A B Ɓ C D Ɗ E G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y ʼY Z
a b ɓ c d ɗ e g h i j k l m n o p r s t u v w y ʼy z

Notes

  1. ^ Bole at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  3. Schuh, Russell G. (October 1996). "Dymitr Ibriszimow and Alhaji Maina Gimba (ed.): Bole language and documentation Unit (BOLDU), Report I. (Westafrikanische Studien. Frankfurter Beiträge zur Sprachund Kulturgeschichte, Bd. 7.) 137 pp. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 1994. DM 32". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 59 (3): 620–621. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00031323. ISSN 1474-0699.
  4. Maina Gimba, Alhaji; Baba Ali, Malam; Bah, Madu (2009). Schuh, Russell G. (ed.). Bole-English-Hausa Dictionary and English-Bole Wordlist. Potiskum: Ajami Press. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0012-7677-1, p. iv.

Further reading

Languages of Nigeria
Official languages
National languages
Recognised languages
Indigenous languages
Indigenous languages (grouped by Nigerian state)
Adamawa
Akwa Ibom
Bauchi
Bayelsa
Benue
Borno
Cross River
Delta
Edo
Gombe
Jigawa
Kaduna
Kano
Kebbi
Kogi
Kwara
Nasarawa
Niger
Ondo
Plateau
Rivers
Taraba
Yobe
Sign languages
Immigrant languages
Scripts
West Chadic languages
Hausa–
Gwandara
(A.1)
Bole–
Tangale
(A.2)
Bole
Tangale
Angas (A.3)
Ron (A.4)
Bade (B.1)
North Bauchi
(Warji) (B.2)
South Bauchi
(Barawa) (B.3)
Zaar
Guruntum
Boghom
Others
Italics indicate extinct languages. See also: Chadic languages


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