Kota language (Gabon)
Not to be confused with Kota language (India) or Kota language (Central African Republic).
Kota | |
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iKota | |
Native to | Gabon, Republic of the Congo |
Native speakers | 34,000 (2000–2007)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 |
koq |
Glottolog |
kota1274 [2] |
B.25 [3] |
Kota, or iKota, is an African language spoken by the Bakota people. It is spoken in northeastern Gabon, Ogooué-Ivindo Province and in some areas of Republic of Congo. According to Ethnologue there are 34,442 Kota speakers in Gabon and 9,055 in the Republic of Congo.[4]
Kota includes several dialects, which include: Ndambomo, Mahongwe, Ikota-la-hua, Sake, Menzambi, Bougom.
References
- ↑ Kota at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kota (Gabon)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Ethnologue report
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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