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Name: Yaka
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Kiyaka; Iaka; Iyaka; Iaca
Spoken in: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
Number of speakers: 700,000 in Democratic Republic of the Congo (2000 SIL). Population total all countries: 900,000 (Ethnologue)
Code: yaf
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup: Yaka (H.30) (yakh)
Child Dialects: Ngoongo (yaf-ngo) Yaka (yaf-yak)

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