Northwest Gbaya language

Northwest Gbaya
Native to Cameroon, Central African Republic
Native speakers
 (65,000 in Cameroon cited 1980)[1]
200,000 in CAR (1996), 2,000 in Congo (1993)
Dialects
  • Kàrà
  • Làì
  • (3rd variety)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gya
Glottolog nort2775[2]

Northwest Gbaya is a Gbaya language spoken across a broad expanse of Cameroon and the Central African Republic. The principal variety is Kara (Kàrà, Gbaya Kara), a name shared with several neighboring languages; Lay (Làì) is restricted to a small area north of Mbodomo, with a third between it and Toongo that is not named in Moñino (2010), but is influenced by the Gbaya languages to the south.

For male initiation rites, the Gbaya Kara use a language called La'bi.

References

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


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