Bushi language

Kibosy
Shibushi, Kibushi
bushi-majunga بُوشِ-مَچُونْڠَ‎
Native toMayotte
Native speakers
60,000 (2017)[1]
Latin
Arabic[2][3]
Language codes
ISO 639-3buc
Glottologbush1250
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Bushi or Kibosy (Shibushi or Kibushi) is a dialect of Malagasy spoken in the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. Malagasy dialects most closely related to Bushi are spoken in northwestern Madagascar in the area of Antsiranana (Diego-Suarez) and Mahajanga (Majunga), which is also the closest point in Madagascar to Mayotte. Kibosy and Majunga together are considered one of the Malagasy languages by Glottolog.

  1. ^ Kibosy at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ “Le Conseil Départemental a Tranché, l’alphabet Des Langues Mahoraises Se Fera En Caractères Latins et Arabes.” Mayotte la 1ère, October 15, 2020. [1]. (Archive)
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