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Record 1 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language Teaching
  • Regional Dialects and Expressions
DEF

(...) language of the Bassa people.

OBS

Grand Bassa County, central Liberia.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Enseignement des langues
  • Régionalismes et usages particuliers
CONT

(...) les langues bantoues du Cameroun et du Gabon présentent des caractères aberrants par rapport au type bantou classique; ainsi l'ewondo et le baasa du groupe fang.

OBS

«bassa» : Cameroun. Les ethnies les plus anciennes du Littoral se rattachent au groupe Bantou, et semblent s'être installées en deux étapes. Tout d'abord vinrent les Bassa, émigrés du Nord (...).

OBS

«bassa» : Le nom du dialecte est le plus souvent le nom de l'ethnie qui le parle.

Spanish

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