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Where is Batanga spoken?

Batanga is an Atlantic-Congo language, spoken in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Key

Language families (largest ten)

  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

Everything else

  • All other families Smaller families, isolates and unclassified languages.
  • Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

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Where Batanga is spoken

Batanga is spoken in 2 countries: Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.

Country
Cameroon
Equatorial Guinea

On the map, Batanga is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Batanga.

How many people speak Batanga?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Shifting. Glottolog lists it as shifting: the youngest speakers are adults, and children are growing up speaking another language.

Where Batanga sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Batanga as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Atlantic-Congo
  2. Volta-Congo
  3. Benue-Congo
  4. Bantoid
  5. Southern Bantoid
  6. Narrow Bantu
  7. Bantu A-B10-B20-B30
  8. Sawabantu
  9. Bengaic
  10. Batanga

Related languages

Other languages in the Bengaic group:

More about Batanga

Codes: ISO 639-3 bnm, Glottolog bata1285. Glottolog macroarea: Africa.

Questions about Batanga

Where is Batanga spoken?

Batanga is spoken in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

Which language family is Batanga in?

Glottolog places Batanga in the Atlantic-Congo family, in the branch Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern Bantoid, Narrow Bantu, Bantu A-B10-B20-B30, Sawabantu and Bengaic.

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