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The name derives from the phrase bae raka ‘people of the seaside’. Most Baga are bilingual in the Mande language Susu, the official regional language. Two ethnically Baga communities, Soban\u00e9 and Kaloum, are known to have abandoned their (unattested) language altogether in favour of Susu.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsVarieties[edit]Geographical distribution[edit]Noun Class Systems[edit]Vocabulary[edit]References[edit]Further reading[edit]External links[edit]Varieties[edit]The varieties as distinct enough to sometimes be considered different languages.[2] They are:Baga Koga (Koba)Baga Manduri (Maduri, Mandari)Baga Sitemu (Sitem, Sitem\u00fa, Stem Baga, Rio Pongo Baga)The extinct Baga Kaloum and Baga Soban\u00e9 peoples had spoken Koga and Sitemu, respectively.[3]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Neighboring Baga Pokur is not closely related.Geographical distribution[edit]Geographical distribution of Baga varieties, listed from north to south, according to Fields-Black (2008:85):[4]Geographical distribution and demographics of Baga varieties according to Wilson (2007), citing a 1997 colloquium talk at Lille by Erhard Voeltz:[5]Baga Manduri: spoken at Dobale, and very similar to Cit\u025bm.Baga Sitemu (properly Cit\u025bm): spoken in a cluster of villages on the Campaces River. This is the only vibrant Baga linguistic variety.Baga Sobane: only two known speakers in an isolated location.Baga Marara: spoken on three islands in the Rio Pongo. It is still being spoken by children.Baga Koba: spoken near Kaporo town only by elderly speakers over age 60. It is reportedly very similar to Baga Kaloum.Baga Kaloum: originally spoken in a quarter of what is now the Conakry area, and in the \u00celes de Los. It is close to Temne. Only spoken in a remote area now.Noun Class Systems[edit]Baga has prefixes for eight noun classes:[2]Variety12345678Baga Madurio- or nonea-a-i-k\u0259-da-c\u0259-s\u0259-Bagu Sitemuwi- or nonea-a-nonek\u0259-da-c\u0259-s\u0259-Baga Kobai-a-a-\u025b-k\u0259-da-c\u0259-s\u0259-Vocabulary[edit]Below is a selection of basic vocabulary in Baga Maduri:[2]aceen – dogiceen – dogsalomp – fishas\u0254\u0254p – pigat\u0254f – earth, landdaboomp da-ka-ob\u025b – the chief’s headdaboomp da-wana – the cow’s headdaf\u0254r – eyedasek – toothisek – teethgbak – hangk\u0259ca – hand, armwaca – hands, armskufoon – hairmun – drinktafac – irongbup – turn onto frontReferences[edit]^ Koga at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Sitemu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Mandari at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Kaloum (spurious) at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Soban\u00e9 (spurious) at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) ^ a b c W.A.A.Wilson, Temne, Landuma and the Baga Languages in: Sierra Leone Language Review, No. 1, 1962 published by Fourah Bay College, Freetown.^ Hammarstr\u00f6m (2015) Ethnologue 16\/17\/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices^ Fields-Black, Edda L. 2008. Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora. (Blacks in the Diaspora.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press.^ Wilson, William Andr\u00e9 Auquier. 2007. Guinea Languages of the Atlantic group: description and internal classification. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik, 12.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.Further reading[edit]Houis, Maurice (1952) ‘Remarques sur la voix passive en Baga’, Notes Africaines, 91\u201392.Houis, Maurice (1953) ‘Le syst\u00e8me pronominal et les classes dans les dialectes Baga, i carte’, Bulletin de l’IFAN, 15, 381\u2013404.Mouser, Bruce L. (2002) ‘Who and where were the Baga?: European perceptions from 1793 to 1821’, History in Africa, 29, 337\u2013364.External links[edit]     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/baga-language-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Baga language – Wikipedia"}}]}]