Bacama language
| Bacama | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Adamawa State, Kaduna State |
Native speakers | 150,000 (1992)[1] |
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Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bcy |
| Glottolog |
baca1246[2] |
Bacama is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria in Adamawa State, principally in the Numan and Guyuk Local Government Areas, and in Kaduna State northeast of Kaduna town. Dialects are Mulyen, Opalo, and Wa-Duku. Bacama is used as a trade language.[1] It is often considered the same language as Bata.
Numerals
Bacama has a decimal/quinary number system, with both 5 and 10 as bases:[3]
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| hido | kpe | mwakin | fwot | tuf | tukoltaka | tukolukpe | fwofwot | dombi hido | bau |
8 is 4-4, 6 and 7 are based on adding to 5, and 9 means '(10) less 1'.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bacama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bacama". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Matsushita, 'Decimal vs. Duodecimal'
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