Bai (ubang language)
| Bai (Bari) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
South Sudan | |
| speaker | 2,500 (in 1971) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
bdj |
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The Bai language (also called Belanda, Biri, BGamba, Gumba, Mbegumba and Mvegumba ; ISO 639-3: bdj) is a Ubang language spoken by the Bai ethnic group in South Sudan .
It only has 2,500 speakers and is threatened with extinction as more and more speakers speak or have spoken the new official language of South Sudan, English and the elderly mostly Arabic . Some can also use Ndogo as a second language.
Together with the Belanda Viri language, the language forms the Sere-Bviri language group .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ bdj
- ↑ (1971 Welmers)
- ↑ Ethnologue