Yasa
| Yasa | ||
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Spoken in |
Cameroon , Equatorial Guinea , Gabon | |
| speaker | 2400 | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Yasa (also Bongwe, Lyaasa, Maasa and Yassa) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 2,400 people in Cameroon , Equatorial Guinea and Gabon .
It is widespread with around 1490 speakers in Cameroon in the Océan district in the Sud province , with around 910 speakers in Equatorial Guinea in the Litoral province and occasionally in Gabon.
classification
Yasa Ngumbi is a north-west Bantu language and, in addition to the Ngumbi language, belongs to the Yasa group within the Bube Benga group , which is classified as Guthrie zone A30.
It has the dialects Iyasa, Bweko, Vendo, Bodele, Marry, One, Asonga, Bomui, Mogana, Mooma and Mapanga.
