Bassa (Bantu language)
| Bassa | ||
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Spoken in |
Cameroon | |
| speaker | 230,000 | |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
bas |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Bassa (also Basa, Basaa, Bicek, Bikyek, Bisaa, Mbele, Mee, Mvele, Nord-Mbene and Tupen) is the language of the Bassa people in Cameroon .
It belongs to the Bantu languages and is spoken by around 230,000 people in the Littoral province in the Nkam and Sanaga-Maritime districts and in the Center province in the Nyong-et-Kéllé district , mainly in the region around the city of Edéa , between Douala and Yaoundé and partly as a minority language in these two cities.
classification
Bassa is a Northwest Bantu language and belongs to the Basaa group , which is classified as the Guthrie Zone A40.
It has the dialects Bakem, Bon, Bibeng, Diboum, Log, Mpo, Mbang, Ndokama, Basso, Ndokbele, Ndokpenda and Nyamtam.
Consonants
| Bilabial | Coronal | Palatal | Velare | Labiovelare | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosives | p | t | c, ɟ | k | kʷ, gʷ |
| Implosive | ɓ | ||||
| Fricatives | s | x | |||
| Nasals | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ŋʷ |
| Prenasal | m b | n d | ɲ ɟ | ŋ g | |
| Lateral | l | ||||
| Approximants | j | w |
numbers
| 1 | do | 7th | h'mle-so |
| 2 | so | 8th | h'mle-ta |
| 3 | ta | 9 | h'mle-hinjo |
| 4th | hinye | 10 | bla-bue |
| 5 | Hm | 11 | bla-bue-be-do |
| 6th | h'mle-do | 12 | bla-bue-be-so |
literature
- Larry M. Hyman: Basaá (A.43) . In: Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson (ed.) (Ed.): The Bantu Languages . Routledge, 2003, pp. 257-282, ISBN 0-7007-1134-1 .
Web links
- Bassa at ethnologue.org
- Bible in Bassa
- Bassa / Basaa on an Ohio State University website
- Language card