Guru language

{{Short description|Bantu language of South Sudan}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Guru

|nativename=Boguru

|states=South Sudan

|ethnicity={{sigfig|500|2}}

|extinct=2011 in South Sudan. Nearly extinct in DR Congo.

|ref=e25

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Volta-Congo

|fam4=Benue–Congo

|fam5=Bantoid

|fam6=Southern Bantoid

|fam7=Bantu

|fam8=Boan

|fam9=Bomokandian

|fam10=Ngendan?

|iso3=bqu

|glotto=bogu1241

|glottorefname=Boguru

|guthrie=D.302

}}

The Guru language, or Boguru, is a poorly documented South Sudanese Bantu language of uncertain affiliation (though listed as unclassified Zone D.30 by Guthrie). For a while, a number of speakers were refugees in DR Congo, but the language is nearly extinct there as well.