Buli

Buli is a Gur language spoken by about 170,000 people mainly in the Builsa North and Builsa South districts in the east of the Upper East Region in northern Ghana.

Buli is also known as Buni, Builsa, Bulisa, Guresha or Kanjaga. Dialects possibly include Chuchuliga. Buli is closely related to Mampruli, which is spoken in northern Ghana, Northern Togo, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Mali.

There are a number ways to write Buli with the Latin alphabet. The current orthography was developed bt the Ghana Institute of Linguistics, Literacy & Bible Translation in the 1990s

Buli alphabet and pronunciation

Download an alphabet chart for Buli (Excel)

Sample sentences in Buli

Bi-fiisanga kan chali nuru ya, ba ka bi-gbentisa.
Small children do not fear anybody, they are naughty.
Nipoowa yigi chichiruku zuisanga a gbin danbuuringka nying.
The woman caught the fairy's hair and tied it to a thorn-tree.
Naawa ngaang-viroawa le la vi papa moaningka la.
The chief's adviser is the one with the red towel (on his shoulders).
Mi a chali talimu ndek nyini chelim ka siisanga ale gilim talimu la nying, yogsum a dan bo bu zuk, mi an bagi a seba.
I am afraid of going to the bushfarm alone, because it is surrounded by siisa-trees, and if shadow lies on it (the farm), I cannot see (lit. know, i.e. ghosts, wild animals etc).

Source: https://www.webonary.org/buli/

Sample videos

Information about Buli | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel

Links

Information about the Buli languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buli_language_(Ghana)
https://www.ghana-materialien.de/Buli-language-guide.htm
https://www.webonary.org/buli/overview/introduction/
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/bwu
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/buli1254
https://grokipedia.com/page/buli_language_ghana
https://www.academia.edu/50861930/Buli_Language_Guide

Gur languages

Berba, Birifor (Northern), Birifor (Southern), Buli, Dagaare, Dagbani, Frafra, Gourmanchéma, Hanga, Kabiye, Kasem, Konkomba, Kulango, Kusaal, Láá Láá Bwamu, Lukpa, Mampruli, Mbelime, Moba, Mossi, Nateni, Nawdm, Ngangam, Ntcham, Paasaal, Safaliba, Sisaali, Tammari, Tem, Tumulung Sisaala, Turka, Waama, Western Sisaala, Yom

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page created: 03.09.26. Last modified: 02.09.26

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