Baga language

Baga
Barka
Native toGuinea
EthnicityBaga
Native speakers
Koga: No data
Sitemu: 40,000 (2018)
Mandari: 4,000 (2011)
Kaloum: Extinct by the 1950s
Sobané: Extinct by the 1950s
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
bgo – Koga
bsp – Sitemu
bmd – Mandari
bqf – Kaloum (spurious)
bsv – Sobané (spurious)
Glottologtemn1245  adds Temne & Landoma
Baga Manduri is classified as Definitely Endangered, Baga Sitemu is classified as Severely Endangered, Baga Mboteni is classified as Critically Endangered, and Baga Kalem is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Baga, or Barka, is a dialect cluster spoken by the Baga people of coastal Guinea. The name derives from the mispronounced Arabic phrase bae raka (bae = sellers and raka = slaves) and understood by the locals as 'people of the seaside' outcast people. Most Baga are bilingual in the Mande language Susu, the official regional language. Two ethnically Baga communities, Sobané and Kaloum, are known to have abandoned their (unattested) language altogether in favour of Susu.

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