- Bushi language
Infobox Language
name = Bushi
nativename = Shibushi, Kibushi
pronunciation =
states =Madagascar ,Mayotte
speakers = 806,200
iso3 = buc
familycolor = Austronesian
fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian
fam3 = Borneo-Philippines
fam4 = Barito
fam5 = Malagasy
script =Latin alphabet
rank =
nation =
agency =Bushi, Shibushi, or Kibushi is a language spoken in
Madagascar and the French-ruled Comorian islands ofMayotte . In 1995, it was spoken by 806,200 people (767,000 in Madagascar and 39,200 in Mayotte).Madagascar Bushi
Bushi is spoken in northwestern Madagascar in the area of
Antsiranana (Diego-Suarez) andMahajanga (Majunga).Mayotte Bushi
Bushi is known as Kibushi on Mayotte and is spoken by 40% of the islands' people (1980). It is spoken alongside Shimaore, a form of Comorian, a Bantu language. Historically, Kibushi and Shimaore have been spoken in certain villages but Shimaore tends to be the "de facto" indigeneous
lingua franca in everyday life, because of the larger Shimaore-speaking population. Only Shimaore is represented on the local television news program by RFO. Dialects of Bushi in Mayotte (known as "Shibushi" in Shimaore) include Kiantalaotse and Kibushi-Kimaore ("Shibushi-Shimaore" in Shimaore).Bushi is spoken along the west coast of the main island (Grande-Terre) including the villages of
Bambo Est ,M'Boueni ,Passy-Kéli ,Mronabeja ,Kani-Kéli ,Chirongui ,Poroani ,Ouangani ,Chiconi ,Sohoa ,M'tsangamouji ,Acoua ,M'tsangadoua ,Handrema .Orthography
In Mayotte, Bushi was traditionally written with an informal French-based Latin orthography. On
22 February 2006 , the "Conseil de la Culture, de l'Education et de l'Environnement de Mayotte" introduced an official alphabet that utilizes the basic Latin alphabet without c, j, q, and x and adds three letters: ɓ, ɗ, and n̈. [ [http://shime.free.fr/linguist_05.htm Alphabet du Kibushi] fr icon]Notes
References
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=buc The Ethnologue page for Bushi] .
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