484 (Bu)

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id: 484,
code_val: "jid",
code_authorities: "LINGUIST List",
primary_name: "Bu",
alternate_names: "Abu;",
lang_description: "",
classification: "Niger-Congo; Atlantic-Congo; Benue-Congo; Plateau",
dialect_varieties: "Bu; Ningkada (Jidda);",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id: 89800,
speakers: [
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  - code_id: 484,
  - speaker_number: "1000-9999",
  - speaker_number_text: "~6,000",
  - second_language_speakers: "",
  - semi_speakers: "",
  - children: "",
  - young_adults: "",
  - older_adults: "",
  - elders: "",
  - ethnic_population: "",
  - date_of_info: "1999",
  - public_comment: ""The Bu regard their language and culture as distinct from the Ningkada [Jidda], but the differences between the two would appear to be very slight. There are perhaps 4000 speakers of Bu and about 2000 or less speakers of Ningkada (the Ningkada hamlets are extremely small). In both locations, immediate evidence suggests that both language and culture are very strong and are not immediately threatened."",
  - private_comment: null,
  - source_id: 98458,
  - preferred: 1,
  },
],
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- featured: 0,
- cached_documentation_score: -1,
- google_group_url: "",
- simplified_level: "mid",
- coordinates: "9.010046, 8.607016",
- updated_at: "2018-03-25 01:00:15",
- speaker_attitude: "",
- government_support: "",
- institutional_support: "",
- _other_languages_used: "",
- domains_of_use: null,
- speakers_worldwide: "~6,000",
- second_language_speakers: null,
- semi_speakers: "",
- children: "",
- young_adults: "",
- older_adults: "",
- elders: "",
- ethnic_population: "",
- speakers_worldwide_year: "1999",
- bibliography_of_vitality: "",
- bibliography_of_context: "98458",
- bibliography_of_locations: "98458",
- user_submission: null,
- approved: 1,
- speakers_int_cache: 6000,
- has_audio_samples: 0,
- has_document_samples: 0,
- has_image_samples: 0,
- has_guide_samples: 0,
- has_video_samples: 0,
- search_simplified_level: "T",
- user_id: 1,
- code_val_cache: "jid",
- has_link_samples: 0,
- submission_source_info: null,
- countries: [
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    - id: 143,
    - name: "Nigeria",
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      - country_id: 143,
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},

}