Spoken L1 Language: Baatonum
- AES status:
- not endangered
- Source:
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David M. Eberhard and Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig 2024
- Comment:
- Baatonum (bba-bba) = 3 (Wider communication). Used as conquest language in 17th century. Widespread under European colonization beginning in the 1880s in northeast Benin and northwest Nigeria. Language of colonization, trade, and church.
Glottolog
[bba] at ISO 639-3
[bba] at OLAC
[bba] at IMTVault
Bariba at WALS
Wikipedia
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