Yaka
[aka Aka, Nyoyaka, Beká]Classification: Niger-Congo
·vulnerable
Classification: Niger-Congo
·vulnerable
Aka, Nyoyaka, Beká, Pygmée de Mongoumba, Pygmée de la Lobaye, Pygmées de la Sanghas, Babinga, Bambenga, Binga, Beka, Mòáka |
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Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Benue-Congo, Southern Bantoid |
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Information from: “Africa” ( ch. 7) . Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and F. K. Erhard Voeltz (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge
"While population figures estimate the Aka population at 30,000 there are good reasons to believe that the language/dialect(s) as a whole is at risk of disappearing. Progressively Aka/Bayaka-speakers are leaving the confines of the forest areas and are settling in the vicinity of smaller settlements in hope of day labour or medical assistance. Often it is exactly due to the effort of 'helping' the forest populations that they are being drawn out of their original environment. Frequently the consequence of these noble efforts is destitution, illness and the loss of their language in favour of Sango, in the Central African Republic and Lingala in the Congo."
Lingala
Sango
"Spoken in the dense forest area that forms the border between the Central African Republic and Congo-Brazzaville."
Information from: “Aka as a contact language: Sociolinguistic and grammatical evidence” . Daniel Duke (2001)
"The generally accepted population figure for the Bayaka people is around 30,000 (Bahuchet and Thomas 1986:81, Bahuchet 1993b:81, Grimes 2000). It is very difficult to determine the exact size of the Bayaka population due to their mobile hunter-gatherer lifestyle. The Central African government census of 1990 registered about 9,400 Bayaka in C.A.R (Recensement RCA 1988). Previously, Cavalli-Sforza had attempted a limited survey of the Bayaka of the Lobaye. He noted that only the Bayaka who happened to be near a village at the time of the census would be counted (1986:26). This same restriction would certainly hold true for the 1990 government census."
Sango
"[A] test in Sango was applied to the Bayaka of Londo village and Moali camp in 1994 with interesting results. Basically, the forest Bayaka have a higher level of Sango ability than would be expected. Their ability varies by age, gender, and contact with outsiders. "
"Rain forest of Central African Republic and Congo-Brazzaville, between the Sangha and the Ubangi Rivers (Bahuchet and Thomas 1986:81). More precisely, the Bayaka territory reflects the land that was covered by the forest before deforestation: another 30–70 kilometers beyond the current borders of the forest (personal observation)... It is possible that part of the Bayaka population lives across the Ubangi River in the western Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire). There are Pygmies living in that region, but research still needs to be done as to their language and ethnic identity (Margaret Hill, personal communication 1997)."
"The Aka language is spoken by the Bayaka Pygmies of Central African Republic (C.A.R). and Congo-Brazzaville."
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Cultural diversity among African pygmies” (215-244) . Barry Hewlett (1996) , Kent, Susan · Cambridge University Press
30,000
"...western Congo-Zaire basin"