Bata language

Bata
Gbwata
Native to Nigeria, Cameroon
Region Adamawa State, North Province
Native speakers
 150,000  (1992)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bta
Glottolog bata1314[2]

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Ethnic territories of the Bata-speaking people (Batta) in Nigeria, in blue

Bata (Gbwata) 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 (Jimo).[1] It is often considered the same language as Bacama.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bata at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bata". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.