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. * Landoma * Baga: Binari, Koba, Manduri, Sitemú, etc. The Baga languages are in turn related to Temne, one of the four official languages of

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; together, Baga and Temne belong to the Mel languages, Mel branch of Niger–Congo languages.

Footnotes

Bibliography

*Houis, Maurice (1952) 'Remarques sur la voix passive en Baga', ''Notes Africaines'', 91–92. *Houis, Maurice (1953) 'Le système pronominal et les classes dans les dialectes Baga, i carte', '' Bulletin de l'IFAN'', 15, 381–404. *Mouser, Bruce L. (2002) 'Who and where were the Baga?: European perceptions from 1793 to 1821', ''History in Africa'', 29, 337–364. Languages of Guinea Mel languages {{Guinea-stub