Baka (East Region, Cameroon)

Facts

  • Language: Baka (East Region, Cameroon)
  • Alternate names: Bayaka, Bayaga, Bibaya, "Babinga"
  • Language code: bkc
  • Language family: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, North, Adamawa-Ubangi, Ubangi, Sere-Ngbaka-Mba, Ngbaka-Mba, Ngbaka, Western, Baka-Gundi (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 30,000-50,000
  • Vulnerability: Vulnerable
  • Script: Latin script, not used in Gabon.

More information:

    Semi-nomadic but encouraged by the government to settle along roadways. Different from Baka of Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan and from the Aka (See: [[Aka]]) (Baaka, Bayaka, Biyaka). Although similar in culture, they are different in language. Traditional religion, Christian.

    Baka (East Region, Cameroon) is spoken in Gabon, Cameroon, Africa.