Bacama language

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Bacama
Spoken in: Nigeria 
Region: Adamawa State, Kaduna State
Total speakers: 150,000 (1992)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Chadic
  Biu-Mandara
   A
    A.8
     Bacama
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: bcy

Bacama is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria in Adamawa State in the Numan and Guyuk LGAs, and in Kaduna State northeast of Kaduna town. Dialects are Mulyen, Opalo, and Wa-Duku. Bacama is used as a trade language. [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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