Gbaya language

Gbaya language
Gbaya
Spoken in Central African Republic, Cameroon
Ethnicity Gbaya
Native speakers 910,000  (1996–2007)
Language family
Ubangian
  • Gbaya languages
    • Gbaya
Language codes
ISO 639-3 variously:
bdt – Bokoto (Gbaya-Boda)
gya – Northwest Gbaya
gso – Southwest Gbaya
gbp – Gbaya-Bossangoa
gbq – Bozom (Gbaya-Bozoum)
gmm – Gbaya-Mbodomo
sqm – Suma

Gbaya is a dialect cluster spoken by the Gbaya people of CAR and Cameroon (one third the population of the CAR), with a couple thousand in the Republic of Congo and a few in Nigeria.

Several varieties have been assigned separate ISO codes, but many of these are mutually intelligible. It is not clear how many languages Gbaya constitutes, or if there is a distinct break from the related Ngbaka and Gbanu languages.


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