Basa (Cameroon) in Cameroon

Speakers

300,000

Type

Location

Basa (Cameroon) in Cameroon

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Basa (Cameroon) in Cameroon

Size

300,000

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
No
Administrative units of the country
Based on the actual population of the subdivisions where the Basaa people are present, as of the official 2005 census
Centre region: widespread in Nyong-and-Kéllé division;
Littoral region:Nkam and Sanaga-Maritime divisions;
South region: Océan division; West region: Menoua division

3. State

Documentation: materials

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
Centre region: widespread in Nyong-and-Kéllé division;
Littoral region:Nkam and Sanaga-Maritime divisions;
South region: Océan division; West region: Menoua division

Size / Number of users

Number of users

300000
Source
Users : 300,000 (2005 SIL)
Year
2005

Users within total population

1.70000
Less than 10% use the language

PROPORTION

2
Year
2005

Educational attainment

Language competence

Literacy of users

Less than 50% of users with literacy in the language

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local

Economic dimension

Economic scope
  • Quinary sector
  • Quaternary sector
  • Tertiary sector
  • Secondary sector
  • Primary sector
  • Language not used

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary
Stability
Decreasing

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Primary level
Type of language use in education
  • Medium of instruction
  • Immersion teaching
  • Teaching subject
  • Occasionally used
  • Symbolically used

Completion