Kako (language)
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Cameroon , Central African Republic , Republic of the Congo | |
| speaker | 119,500 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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Kako (also Dikaka, Kaka, Mkako, Nkoxo or Yaka) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 119,500 people in Cameroon , the Central African Republic and the Republic of the Congo .
10–15% of the second language speakers can read and write kako.
In Cameroon, Kako is spoken by around 100,000 people in the Kadey district in the Est province (2003 census). In the Central African Republic it is spoken by around 10,400 people (1996 census) in the prefectures of Mambéré-Kadéï and Sangha-Mbaéré, and in the Republic of the Congo by around 9060 people (2002 census) in the northern part of the Likouala region.
Kako is written in the Latin script .
classification
Kako is a Northwest Bantu language and, together with the Kwakum and Pol languages, forms the Kako group , which is classified as Guthrie Zone A90.
It has the dialects Mbonjoku, Besembo, Bera and Ngbako.