Kako language

Spoken in

  • Niger - Congo languages Benue - Congo languages Bantoidsprachen Bantu languages Kako

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Kako (also Dikaka, Kaka, Mkako, Nkoxo or Yaka ) is a Bantu language and is spoken by approximately 119,500 people in Cameroon, the Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo.

10-15% of second -language speakers can read and write Kako.

In Cameroon, Kako is spoken by approximately 100,000 people in the district Kadey in the province Est ( census 2003). In the Central African Republic, it is of about 10,400 people ( census 1996) spoken in the prefectures Mambéré - Kadéï and Sangha Mbaéré and in the Republic of Congo from about 9060 people ( 2002 census ) in the northern part of the Likouala region.

Kako is written in the Latin script.

Classification

Kako is a Northwest Bantu language and forms with the languages ​​Kwakum pole and the Kako group that is classified as Guthrie Zone A90.

She has the dialects Mbonjoku, Besembo, Bera and Ngbako.

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