Baba (language)

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Baba

Spoken in

Cameroon
speaker 24,500
Linguistic
classification

Niger-Congo

Language codes
ISO 639-3

bbw

The language Baba (also baba 1, bapa, bapakum, papia, supapya '; ISO 639-3: bbw) is a bantoid language within the Nun group from the grassland language group , which is spoken by a total of 24,500 people in the Northwest Province of Cameroon .

It is related to the Mungaka [mhk] language. The speakers of Baba call themselves supapya.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. bbw
  2. (2005 SIL)
  3. Ethnologue