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West Banda language

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2024
Entity authorityQ7984377 ↗
Source-derived summary

West Banda is a minor Banda language, spoken by 10,000 or so people.

Dialects

Dialects are Dakpa, Gbaga-Nord (Gbaga-2), Gbi, Vita, and Wojo (Hodjo), as reported by Ethnologue and Moñino (1988).

Dákpá speakers live in some villages near the Sara people of Nyango; clans are Yangbà and Dèkò.

Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

Vowel tones in West Banda are rising /ǎ/, falling /â/, mid /ā/, low /à/, and high /á/.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “West Banda language” as language. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where West, Banda and language can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as language. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7984377. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “West Banda language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.