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Baga, or Barka, is a dialect cluster spoken by the Baga people of coastal Guinea. The name derives from the phrase ''bae raka'' 'people of the seaside'. Most Baga are bilingual in the Mande language Susu, the official regional language. Two ethnically Baga communities, Sobané and Kaloum, are known to have abandoned their (unattested) language altogether in favour of Susu. The varieties as distinct enough to sometimes be considered different languages.〔W.A.A.Wilson, ''Temne, Landuma and the Baga Languages'' in: ''Sierra Leone Language Review, No. 1, 1962'' published by Fourah Bay College, Freetown.〕 They are: :Baga Koga (Koba) :Baga Manduri (Maduri, Mandari) :Baga Sitemu (Sitemú, Stem Baga, Rio Pongo Baga) :Baga Sobané (extinct) :Baga Kaloum (extinct) Neighboring Baga Pokur is not closely related. ==Noun Class Systems== Baga has prefixes for eight noun classes:〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baga language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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