Baka language (South Sudan)

Baka
Native to South Sudan
Native speakers
(26,000 cited 1993)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bdh
Glottolog baka1274[2]

Baka (Tara Baka) is a Central Sudanic language of South Sudan, with the majority living in an area centered on Maridi, South Sudan, but also a couple thousand speakers in the DRC. It has consonants with trilled release such as /dr/ and /ɡ͡bʙ/.

References

  1. Baka at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Baka (Sudan)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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