Speakers who have gone to school or work outside their villages are bilingual in Pokur and the Mande language Susu.
[3] Pokur has lost the noun-class concord found in its relatives.
[5][1] Wilson (2007), based on his field reports from the 1950s, reported that Baga Mboteni (called Pukur by the speakers) was spoken on Binari Island by two clans that were hostile to each other.
[2] As one of the two Rio Nunez languages of Guinea, its closest relative is Mbulungish.
The language is instead most closely related to Nalu and Mbulungish, though it shares a low percentage of cognate vocabulary with them.