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Language code: bam

Technical information about ISO 639 language code bam

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

Code

bam

Name

Official

Bambara

Native

Bamanankan

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
BamakoSegouKaartaBeleduguWasulu (Sikasso)Ganadougou
Related languages
Dyula (Jula)MandinkaManinkaKhassonkéSoninke
Key facts
Spoken natively by about 5 million people and used as a second language by more than twice that numberServes as the main lingua franca for interethnic communication throughout MaliTwo-tone system (high and low) is used to distinguish meaningWritten in a Latin-based alphabet with the additional characters ɲ, ŋ, ɛ and ɔ, and also in the indigenous N’Ko scriptMorphology is predominantly agglutinative and sentences follow a subject–object–verb order
Sample phrase

I ni cɛ, i ka kɛnɛ?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Bambara language, identified by the code bam, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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