Bacama language

Bacama language

language
name=Bacama
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Nigeria
region=Adamawa State, Kaduna State
speakers=150,000 (1992)
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Chadic
fam3=Biu-Mandara
fam4=A
fam5=A.8
iso3=bcy

Bacama is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria in Adamawa State in the Numan and Guyuk LGAs, and in Kaduna State northeast of Kaduna town. Dialects are Mulyen, Opalo, and Wa-Duku. Bacama is used as a trade language. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

Notes

References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bcy Ethnologue entry for Bacama]


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