Bafia language (Cameroon)
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Bekpak |
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The Bafia language is a Bantu language spoken by 60,000 people in Cameroon according to 1991 figures.[4]
Overview
It is used in the Bafia subdivision of the Mbam and Inoubou Division in Center Province in southwestern Cameroon.[4] There are two varieties, Kpa and Pey.[4] The former call their language Rɨkpa and themselves as Bekpak, the latter Rɨpey. Pey may be a distinct language.[5]
References
- ↑ Kpa’ at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bafia". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- 1 2 3 Bafia, Ethnologue, 1991, access date 30-03-2012
- ↑
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| | Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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