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 |
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| Standard | |
| 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 | |
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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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