Bacama language

Bacama
Bacama
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Adamawa State, Kaduna State
Native speakers	(150,000 cited 1992)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara Bata (A.8) Bacama; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bcy

Bacama is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria in Adamawa State, principally in the Numan and Guyuk Local Government Areas, and in Kaduna State northeast of Kaduna town. Dialects are Mulyen, Opalo, and Wa-Duku. Bacama is used as a trade language.^[2] It is often considered the same language as Bata.

Numerals

Bacama has a decimal/quinary number system, with both 5 and 10 as bases:^[3]

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
hido	kpe	mwakin	fwot	tuf	tukoltaka	tukolukpe	fwofwot	dombi hido	bau

8 is 4-4, 6 and 7 are based on adding to 5, and 9 means '(10) less 1'.

Notes

^ Bacama at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
^ Matsushita, 'Decimal vs. Duodecimal'

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[e17-1] Bacama at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)

[2] Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

[3] Matsushita, 'Decimal vs. Duodecimal'

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