Baka language (Cameroon and Gabon)
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Name (Latin)
Baka language (Cameroon and Gabon)
Other forms of name
Babinga language
nne Baka language (Cameroon)
Bebayaga language
Bibaya language
Ebongwe language
Gebongwe language
Pygmee language
Pygmees de l'est language
Pygmy-e language
See Also From tracing topical name
Pygmies Languages
Ubangi languages
See Also From tracing place name
Cameroon
Gabon
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q34905
Library of congress:
sh 85011064
Sources of Information
- Ethnologue:p. 177, under Cameroon (Baka (Pygmy-e, Pygmee, Bebayaka, Bebayaga, Bibaya, Pygmees de l'est, Babinga); Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, North, Adamawa-Ubangi, Ubangi, Sere-Ngbaka-Mba, Ngbaka, Western, Baka-Gundi) under Gabon (Baka (Babinga); "Babinga" is used for the Baka, Aka, and Bieli; separate Pygmy languages)
- Niger-Congo languages, 1989:p. 194-5 (language tree, lists Baka, Bomasa, Ngundi, and Ngombe under Western division of Ngbaka/Mba languages ... The languages of subdivision II.a.ii.d are spoken mainly by Pygmy populations inhabiting the deep forest in the Cameroon-Gabon-Congo-CAR border region ...)
- Fivaz, D. Afr. langs., 1977(lists 2 Baka langs. in index -- one Bongo-Bagirmi lang. spoken in Sudan and Zaire, one Omotic; also Baka Mombe, and Gbaya language. Ngbaka group listed separately)
- Raponda Walker, A. Eléments de grammaire ébongwè, c1996, orig. 1937:p. 5 (Ebongwe or Gebongwe is the day-to-day language of the Babongo pygmies of Ngounié [present-day province in Gabon]; the Babongo (sing: Momongo) is the name used by the pygmies of these regions though other groups refer to them by a variety of other names including ... Babinga)