Bukusu
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- Language: Bukusu
- Alternate names: Lubukusu
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:bxk
- Language family: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, J, Masaba-Luyia (J.30), Luyia
- Number of speakers: 565,000
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
Bukusu is a bantu language.
Major dialects are Bukusu and Tachoni (Tachon).
The verb
In Bukusu as in other Bantu languages, verb stems reduplicate to give a meaning like‘repeatedly’ or ‘carelessly’.
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