Makaa (language)
| Makaa | ||
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Spoken in |
Cameroon | |
| speaker | 80,000 | |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Makaa (also Mekaa) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 80,000 people in Cameroon (1987 census).
It is the mother tongue of the Makaa and is spread in the Haut-Nyong district in the province of Est .
Makaa is written in the Latin script .
classification
Makaa is a northwest Bantu language and belongs to the Makaa-Njem group , which is classified as Guthrie Zone A80.
It has the dialects Bebent, Mbwaanz and Seconda.