Baa (language)
| Baa (Kwah) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Nigeria ( Adamaua ) | |
| speaker | 7,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
kwb |
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Baa , also known as Kwa, Kwah , is an isolated Niger-Congo language .
The language is still little researched linguistically and is about to die out, as its speakers are increasingly adopting English.
Individual evidence
- ↑ uncertain affiliation; the more it has been studied, the more divergent it appears. Joseph Greenberg counted it as one of the Waja – Jen languages of the Adamawa family. Boyd (1989) assigned it its own branch within Waja-Jen. Kleinewillinghöfer (1996) removed it from Waja-Jen as an independent branch of Adamawa. When Blench (2008) broke up Adamawa, Baa became a provisional independent branch of his larger Savannas family.