Social:Basa-Kontagora language

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Short description: Endangered Kainji language of Nigeria
Basa-Kontagora
Native toNigeria
RegionKontagora
Ethnicity30,000 (no date)[1]
ExtinctEarly 2000se25
Niger–Congo
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Benue–Congo
      • Kainji
        • Basa languages
          • Kontagora–Gumna
            • Basa-Kontagora
Language codes
ISO 639-3bsr
Glottologbass1259[2]

Basa-Kontagora is an extinct Kainji language of Nigeria. It is spoken in Mariga, Niger State, near Kontagora and the Basa homeland. It is estimated that Basa-Kontagora has less than 10 native speakers as of 2010.

References

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  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Bassa-Kontagora". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bass1259.