Bali language (Adamawa)

Not to be confused with Bali language or Balinese language.
Bali
Region Demsa, Adamawa, Nigeria
Ethnicity Bali people
Native speakers
(2,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bcn
Glottolog bali1245[2]

Bali (also known as Bibaali, Maya, Abaali, Ibaale, or Ibaali) is a Niger–Congo language spoken by 100,000 people (as of 2006) in Demsa, Adamawa, Nigeria.

References

  1. Bali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bali (Nigeria)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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