Basaa (also spelled Bassa, Basa, Bissa ), or Mbene , is a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon by the Basaa people . It is spoken by about 300,000 people in the Centre and Littoral regions.
6-538: Maho (2009) lists North and South Kogo as dialects. Basaa is spoken by 230,000 speakers. They live in Nyong-et-Kelle (Central Region) and Sanaga Maritime (with the exception of the Edéa commune, which has a Bakoko majority) and most of Nkam commune ( Littoral Region ). In the western and northern parts of this department, the peripheral Basaa dialects are spoken: Yabasi in the commune of Yabassi , Diɓuum in
12-498: Is a Basaa dialect, despite its geographical location in the southeast of Bokito arrondissement ( Mbam-et-Inoubou department, Central Region). Basaa contrasts four tones : high, low, high-to-low (falling) and low-to-high (rising). The language uses a Latin-based alphabet, with the addition of the letters Ɓɓ, Ɛɛ, Ŋŋ, Ɔɔ, ten multigraphs , as well as acute , grave , and circumflex accents: Macron and caron diacritics may be used for marking tone in reference works, for example
18-698: The commune of Nkondjok (Diboum Canton), north of Ndemli and Dimbamban . Similarly, Basaa Baduala is spoken in Wouri Department (Littoral Region), traditional Basaa territory that is being transformed by the growth of Douala . Basaa is also found in Océan Department (commune of Bipindi , Southern Region). Hijuk is spoken only in the quarter of Niki in Batanga commune, in Yangben Canton (Ch. Paulian (1980)) by 400 people. Hijuk
24-425: The dictionary by Pierre Emmanuel Njock. Kogo language Kogo , also referred to as Bakoko and Basoo , is a Bantu language of Cameroon . North and South Kogo are as distinct from each other as they are from Basaa ; they might be considered three dialects of a single language. Traditionally, Bakoko and Basaa societies had a very close relationship, especially on a religious level. The Bakoko language
30-515: The geographical fragmentation of the Bakoko-speaking area. ALCAM (2012) lists the following dialects. Central dialects: In the south: Detached from the southern contiguous group mentioned above are four separate Bakoko groups, each with its own dialect: In the west: In the northwest: In the northeast: There are around 50,000 speakers. Kogo uses the Latin script . Its alphabet
36-599: Was the language of ritual for both the Bakoko and Basaa, and the Basaa language was also familiar to the Bakoko. After the Second World War , as the ritual relations gradually receded, this social and linguistic symbiosis declined. Today, the two languages are sociolinguistically distinct. Bakoko speakers also tend to speak Basaa today, but Basaa speakers typically do not speak Bakoko. There are many dialects because of
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