Baga languages explained

Baga languages should not be confused with Bʼaga languages.

Baga
Region:Coastal Guinea
Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:Mel
Fam4:Temne
Child1:Landoma
Child2:Baga proper
Glotto:none
Glotto2:temn1245
Glottoname2:Temne–Baga
Glottorefname2:Northern Mel

The Baga languages are languages of the Mel family spoken in the coastal region of Guinea. The total number of speakers is about 30,000, of which Landoma speakers make up almost half.

Languages

The varieties apart from Landoma are sometimes considered dialects of one language, Baga or Barka. Landoma is somewhat more distantly related.

Binari, Koba, Manduri, Sitemú, etc.

The Baga languages are in turn related to Temne, one of the four official languages of Sierra Leone; together, Baga and Temne belong to the Mel branch of Niger–Congo languages.

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