Basaa language
Bantu language spoken in Cameroon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For a Kru language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone, see Bassa language. For a Kainji language spoken in Nigeria, see Basa language.
Basaa (also spelled Bassa, Basa, Bissa), or Mbene, is a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon by the Basaa people. It is spoken by about 300,000 people in the Centre and Littoral regions.
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Basaa | |
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Mbene | |
ɓasaá, ɓàsàa | |
Native to | Cameroon |
Region | Centre and Littoral Provinces |
Ethnicity | Basaa people |
Native speakers | 300,000 (2005 SIL)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | bas |
ISO 639-3 | bas |
Glottolog | basa1284 |
A.43a [2] | |
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Maho (2009) lists North and South Kogo as dialects.