Busuu language

Busuu is an unclassified Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. According to Ethnologue it is extinct. As of 2005, there were 3 speakers of the language. Busuu is an endangered language.

Classification

In the Furu-Awa Subdivision in northern Cameroon bordering to Nigeria, three missions of ALCAM between 1984 and 1986 investigated three non-Jukunoid languages, among which Bikya and Bishuo are probably Beboid, but Busuu has been unable to be classified. All of these languages were spoken only by a few older inhabitants of the five villages Furu-Awa, Nangwa, Turuwa, Sambari and Furubana. Lexical analysis has shown that while Bishuo has 24% lexical similarity with neighbouring Beboid languages, Nsaa and Nooni and Bikya have 16% resp. 17% similarity with them, and Busuu has just 8% resp. 7%.