Yaka (language, Central African Republic)
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Spoken in |
Central African Republic , Republic of the Congo | |
| speaker | 30,000 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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Yaka (also Aka, Babinga, Bambenga, Beka, Beká, Binga, Mòáka and Nyoyaka) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 30,000 members of the Bayaka in the Central African Republic and the Republic of the Congo .
It is widespread in the Central African Republic in the prefecture of Lobaye and the economic prefecture of Sangha-Mbaéré and in the Republic of the Congo in the department of Likouala with around 15,000 speakers each.
Yaka is written in the Latin script .
classification
Yaka forms the Ngando group with the Ngando language . According to the classification of Malcolm Guthrie , Yaka belongs to Guthrie Zone C10. It has the dialects Basese, Beka (also Gbayaka, Bayaka and Moyaka), Bambenzele and Nzari.
literature
- William L. Gardner: Language use in the Epena district of Northern Congo (PDF; 806 kB) . SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2006. Abstract