Baa (Sprache)

Baa (Kwah)
Gesprochen in	Nigeria (Adamaua)
Sprecher	7.000
Linguistische; Klassifikation	Niger-Kongo Atlantik–Kongo Savannensprachen Gyakan; ; Baa;
Sprachcodes
ISO 639-3	kwb

Baa, auch bekannt als Kwa, Kwah, ist eine isolierte Niger-Kongo-Sprache.

Die Sprache ist sprachwissenschaftlich noch wenig erforscht und ist gerade dabei, auszusterben, da ihre Sprecher immer mehr das Englische übernehmen.^[1]

↑ uncertain affiliation; the more it has been studied, the more divergent it appears. Joseph Greenberg counted it as one of the Waja–Jen languages of the Adamawa family. Boyd (1989) assigned it its own branch within Waja–Jen. Kleinewillinghöfer (1996) removed it from Waja–Jen as an independent branch of Adamawa. When Blench (2008) broke up Adamawa, Baa became a provisional independent branch of his larger Savannas family.

[1] uncertain affiliation; the more it has been studied, the more divergent it appears. Joseph Greenberg counted it as one of the Waja–Jen languages of the Adamawa family. Boyd (1989) assigned it its own branch within Waja–Jen. Kleinewillinghöfer (1996) removed it from Waja–Jen as an independent branch of Adamawa. When Blench (2008) broke up Adamawa, Baa became a provisional independent branch of his larger Savannas family.

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