Language code: bai

Technical information about ISO 639 language code bai

The table below provides technical details for the Bamileke languages language, designated by the bai code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

bai

Name

Bamileke languages

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Fe'fe'Ghomala'MedumbaYembaNgiemboonNda'nda'MengakaKwa'NgombaNen
Related languages
BamumKomBafutTikarMankon
Key facts
Belongs to the Eastern Grassfields branch of the Niger-Congo familyTone is highly contrastive, with up to four level tones and several contour tonesWriting systems follow the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages and use extended Latin letters such as ɛ, ŋ and ʉPhonology includes many prenasalized consonants and a complex noun-class systemMutual intelligibility between different Bamileke varieties varies greatly, leading linguists to treat several as distinct languages.
Sample phrase

Ndé, a sé ?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Bamileke languages language, identified by the code bai, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Genetic' by its type.

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