Yasa language

Iyasa
Iyasa
Bongwe
Native to	Cameroon; ; ; ; Equatorial Guinea; ; ; ; Gabon
Ethnicity	Yasa and Pygmies
Native speakers	2,400 in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea (2000–2011); ; ; ; unknown number in Gabon
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone A) Sawabantu (A.30) Kombe? Iyasa; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yko
Glottolog	yasa1242
Guthrie code	A.33a
ELP	Iyasa
	Yasa is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Iyasa (Yasa, Yassa) bụ asụsụ Bantu na-asụ na Cameroon na Equatorial Guinea nke ndị Iyasa na Ndowe dị n'ụsọ oké osimiri na-asụ. Ndị Akakpọ na-asụkwa ya, ikekwe Babongo, na Gabon. Ihe dị ka puku mmadụ atọ na-asụ Iyasa, n'agbanyeghị na ụfọdụ na-ekwu na ọnụ ọgụgụ a nwere ike ịbụ ihe karịrị akarị.

Iyasa na-akpọkwa Bongwe, Lyaasa, na Maasa. Olumba bụ Bweko, Vendo, Bodele, Marry, One, Asonga, Bomui, Mogana, Mooma, Mapanga. O nwekwara ike bụrụ olumba Kombe. Ndị na-ekwu okwu na-akọ na Kombe na Iyasa fọrọ nke nta ka ha nwee nghọta nke ọma.

Nchịkọta

Dieu na Renaud (1993) kewara Iyasa dị ka asụsụ Sawabantu (A.30 na nhazi Guthrie).^[3]

Ebe a na-ekesa ya

A na-asụ Iyasa n'ụsọ oké osimiri Cameroon n'ebe ndịda Kribi, gụnyere n'obodo Campo. A na-asụkwa ya gafee Osimiri Ntem na Equatorial Guinea.^[4] Obodo Iyasa kachasị n'ebe ugwu bụ Lolabe, 31 kilomita n'ebe ndịda Kribi.^[5]

Ọmụmụ ụdaolu

Iyasa nwere usoro ụdaume asaa:^[5]

Mkpụrụ okwu Monophthong
	N'ihu	Central	Nlaghachi
N'akụkụ	i		u
N'etiti etiti	e		o
Mepee n'etiti	ɛ		ɔ
Emeghe		a

O nwekwara ụdaume iri abụọ na abụọ:^[5]

1 2 3 Iyasa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
↑ Dieu, Michel, and Patrick Renaud. 1993. Situation linguistique en Afrique centrale, inventaire pre@liminaire: Le Cameroun. In Atlas Linguistique du Cameroun. Yaounde@: ACCT-CERDOTOLA-DGRST.
↑ Bôt, Dieudonné Martin Luther (2011). "Le Préfixe Nominale Yasa". Journal of West African Languages. 38 (1): 99–122.
1 2 3 Bouh Ma Sitna, Charles Lwanga (2004). Le Syntagme Nominal du Yasa. University of Yaoundé I: Master's thesis.

[e18-1] 1 2 3 Iyasa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Guthrie-2] Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

[3] Dieu, Michel, and Patrick Renaud. 1993. Situation linguistique en Afrique centrale, inventaire pre@liminaire: Le Cameroun. In Atlas Linguistique du Cameroun. Yaounde@: ACCT-CERDOTOLA-DGRST.

[:1-4] Bôt, Dieudonné Martin Luther (2011). "Le Préfixe Nominale Yasa". Journal of West African Languages. 38 (1): 99–122.

[:0-5] 1 2 3 Bouh Ma Sitna, Charles Lwanga (2004). Le Syntagme Nominal du Yasa. University of Yaoundé I: Master's thesis.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]