Bafia language (Cameroon)

The Bafia language is a Bantu language spoken by 60,000 people in Cameroon according to 1991 figures.[4]

Kpa’
Bafia
Rikpa
Native toCameroon
Native speakers
(60,000 cited 1991)[1]
Dialects
  • Ripey (Bape)
Language codes
ISO 639-3ksf
Glottologbafi1243[2]
A.53[3]
PeopleBekpak
LanguageRikpa

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 referred to the language was Rɨkpa, and to themselves as Bekpak; the latter Rɨpey. Pey may be a distinct language.[5]

gollark: It's just attached to my keyring, it only gets plugged in when I need to update stuff on it.
gollark: In case of spontaneous implosions of all my computers, I think I would just have to find a working computer with Linux on it, decrypt my USB thing, and use the SSH keys on it to access osmarkscloud™.
gollark: Doubtful.
gollark: I don't think both I and all my computers will be struck by lightning simultaneously.
gollark: I have backups of critical things on a USB stick I carry with me.

References
  1. Kpa’ at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bafia". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. Bafia, Ethnologue, 1991, access date 30-03-2012
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