Bata language

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Bata
Spoken in: Nigeria, Cameroon 
Region: Adamawa State, North Province
Total speakers: 152,500 (1992)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Chadic
  Biu-Mandara
   A
    A.8
     Bata
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: bta

Bata is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria in Adamawa State in the Numan, Song, Fufore, and Mubi LGAs, and in Cameroon in North Province along the border with Nigeria. Dialects are Demsa, Garoua, Jirai, Kobotachi, Malabu, Ndeewe, Ribaw, Wadi, and Zumu. [1]

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  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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