Basaa

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Basaa is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Basaa people in Cameroon.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Basaa canonical 2
Basa 1

Statements (36)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
Cameroonian language
natural language
continent Africa
country Cameroon NERFINISHED
glottocode basa1284
hasAlternativeName Bassa NERFINISHED
Bassa (Cameroon) NERFINISHED
Bassaá NERFINISHED
hasApproximateSpeakers hundreds of thousands
hasEthnicGroup Basaa people NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticFeature noun class system
tone language
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
hasOrthography standardized Latin-based orthography
hasPhylum Niger–Congo languages NERFINISHED
hasStandardizationEffortsBy Cameroonian language committees
hasSubclassification Atlantic–Congo languages NERFINISHED
Benue–Congo languages NERFINISHED
Southern Bantoid languages NERFINISHED
isDifferentFrom Bassa language (Liberia) NERFINISHED
iso639-3Code bas
isSpokenPrimarilyBy Basaa ethnic group
languageFamily Bantu NERFINISHED
region Centre Region of Cameroon NERFINISHED
Littoral Region of Cameroon NERFINISHED
spokenBy Basaa people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Cameroon NERFINISHED
subfamily Narrow Bantu NERFINISHED
subgroup Sawabantu languages NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication among Basaa people
oral literature
traditional songs and storytelling
usedIn local education in parts of Cameroon
radio broadcasting in Cameroon
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bassa hasAlternativeName Basaa
Bassa hasAlternativeName Basaa
this entity surface form: Basa
Duala closelyRelatedTo Basaa