Baka language

E700214

Bantu language Central African language language

The Baka language is a Central African language spoken primarily by the Baka Pygmy communities in parts of Cameroon, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Baka language canonical	1
Baka languages	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Bantu language ⓘ Central African language ⓘ language ⓘ
country	Cameroon ⓘ Gabon ⓘ Republic of the Congo NERFINISHED ⓘ
endangeredStatus	vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicity	Baka people NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Baka (Bantu) language NERFINISHED ⓘ Baka (Cameroon) language NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasDocumentation	ethnographic recordings ⓘ linguistic field studies ⓘ
hasDomain	forest-related knowledge ⓘ gathering terminology ⓘ hunting terminology ⓘ
hasLanguageStatus	minority language ⓘ
hasLinguisticArea	northwestern Congo Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType	agglutinative ⓘ
hasNeighboringLanguage	Badwe’e language ⓘ Kaka language ⓘ Koozime language NERFINISHED ⓘ Makaa language NERFINISHED ⓘ Ngumba language NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	rich consonant inventory ⓘ tonal language ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticSituation	bilingualism with neighboring Bantu languages ⓘ language shift pressure from dominant regional languages ⓘ
hasSpeakerPopulation	several tens of thousands (approximate) ⓘ
hasSpeakerType	hunter-gatherer communities ⓘ
hasWordOrder	SVO ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script
isDifferentFrom	Baka language (Mabaka) ⓘ Baka language (Ubangian) ⓘ
ISO639-3Code	bkc ⓘ
languageFamily	Bantu languages ⓘ Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
region	Central Africa ⓘ
spokenBy	Baka Pygmy communities ⓘ Baka people NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn	Cameroon NERFINISHED ⓘ Gabon NERFINISHED ⓘ Republic of the Congo NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedFor	cultural transmission ⓘ intra-community communication ⓘ
usedIn	rituals ⓘ songs ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

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

Ubangian languages → hasMember → Baka language ⓘ

Baka–Gundi languages → hasSubgroup → Baka language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Baka languages