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Name: Yasa

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Yassa; Lyaasa; Maasa; Bongwe; Lyassa

Spoken in: Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon

Number of speakers: 1,490 in Cameroon (2000). Population total all countries: 2,400 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 2401 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 2401 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: yko

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)

Parent Subgroup: Yasa (yasa)

Child Dialects: Marry (yko-mar) Asonga (yko-aso) Mooma (yko-moo) Vendo (yko-ven) Mogana (yko-mog) Iyasa (yko-iya) Mapanga (yko-map) Bodele (yko-bod) One (yko-one) Bweko (yko-bwe) Bomui (yko-bom)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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