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Bon Gula

A language of Chad

ISO 639-3: glc

Population	1,200 (1997 SIL).
Region	Guéra region, Bahr Signaka Department, Melfi Subprefecture, north of Lake Iro, northeast of Zan. Bon and Ibir villages.
Language map	Southwestern Chad, reference number 67
Alternate names	Bon, Bon Goula, Bun, Gula Guera, Poun, Taataal
Dialects	Lexical similarity: 46% with Zan Gula [zna].
Classification	Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, North, Adamawa-Ubangi, Adamawa, Mbum-Day, Bua
Language use	Vigorous. Most also use Chadian Spoken Arabic [shu].
Comments	Bon Gula and Zan Gula are referred to together as ‘Gula Guera’. Traditional religion, Muslim.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

FARIS, David; MEUNDEUNG, Marba, authors. 1993. Etude sociolinguistique de la langue bon goula.  

Vernacular Publications

Ha 2012 Agenda en Êêni. 2011.

Hômil êêni 2. 2011.

Hômil êêni. 2011.