Baga Mboteni
| Baga Mboteni | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Spoken in |
Guinea | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
|
|
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
bgm |
|
Baga Mboteni (ISO 639-3: bgm ) is a West Atlantic language spoken in Guinea south of the Nuñez River .
The West Atlantic languages belong to the Niger-Congo language family. The language is spoken by the Baga ethnic group as their mother tongue, but it differs greatly from those of other Baga languages and is related to the Nalu [naj] and Mbulungi [mbv], with which it forms the language group Mbulungi-Nalu .
The ethnic Mboteni population is 4,800. Most of them now speak French, the official Guinean language, and some can also speak Susu [sus] as a second language.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ bgm
- ↑ Ethnologue ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
