• Aka, also known as Yaka or Beka, is a Bantu language spoken in the Central African Republic and Republic of Congo, along the Ubangi River dividing the...
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    Africa and consists of the following countries: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic...
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    in the Kongo language, and Bayaka (the plural form of Aka/Yaka), used in the Central African Republic. The Congo Pygmy speak languages of the Niger–Congo...
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  • Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic Yaka language (Cameroon), spoken in Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and the Central Africa...
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    Kikongo is one of the Bantu languages spoken by the Kongo people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and...
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    Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages. The total number of Bantu languages is...
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  • franchise Yaka Bāgh or Yekkeh Bagh, Torbat-e Jam, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran Yaka, Central African Republic, near Mbokassa Yaka, Togo Yaka language...
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    Téké, Tembo, Tetela, Topoke, Ungana, Vira, Wakuti, Yaka, Yakoma, Yanzi, Yéké, Yela, etc. Central Sudanic: Manvu, Mbunja, Moru-Mangbetu, Lugbara Nilotic...
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    The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country in Central Africa. By land area, the DRC is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest...
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  • continuum. The varieties are Tsaayi (Ge-Tsaya, Tyaye, Tsayi), Laali, Yaa (Yaka), and Tyee (Tee, Kwe). The dominant variety by far is Tsaayi. Tsaayi at Ethnologue...
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    official language of Angola, but 46 other languages are spoken in the country, mostly Bantu languages. Portuguese is the sole official language. Due to...
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    are of West African and coastal Central African ancestry, with varying amounts of Western European and Native American ancestry. African-American history...
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    Bantu peoples (redirect from Bantu Africa)
    native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages are native to 24 countries spread over a vast area from Central Africa to Southeast...
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  • western expansion also saw claims of descent by the Yaka and the Pende. The Lunda linked Central Africa with the western coast trade. The kingdom of Lunda...
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    Bantoid language. Population: 400 The Aka of the Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo speak Aka (Yaka) which is a Bantu language close to...
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    Makaa–Njem languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo...
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    classification of Sub-Saharan African Kingdoms, mostly of Central, South and East Africa, with some additional data on West African (Sahelian) Kingdoms distinguishing...
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    Rulers of Kasongo Luunda (Yaka) Rulers of Kongo Zaire "20 dead in Congo unrest as Kabila clings on to power". IOL. South Africa. Retrieved 3 March 2017...
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    Sudan, Uganda. Central: Burundi, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo South: Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa. West: Benin;...
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    Democratic Republic of Congo. Masks typically depicted anthropomorphic qualities and were used for initiations and storytelling. The Yaka people used...
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    Democratic Republic of the Congo Central African Republic Central Bank of the Congo Central African mangroves Central Congolian lowland forests Central Zambezian...
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    indigenous Africans and the African continent. The definition may also include the art of the African diasporas, such as: African-American, Caribbean or art...
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    Kongo people (category Ethnic groups in the Republic of the Congo)
    there is much confusion between the "original" Jagas, who left the land of Yaka on the eastern bank of the Kwango River and invaded Mbata and mbanza Kongo...
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    Aka people (category Ethnic groups in the Central African Republic)
    Congo, and southwestern Central African Republic. Unlike the Mbuti pygmies of the eastern Congo (who speak only the language of the tribes with whom they...
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    Pygmy peoples (category African Pygmies)
    Twa. The term Bayaka, the plural form of the Aka/Yaka, is sometimes used in the Central African Republic to refer to all local pygmies. Likewise, the Kongo...
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    Twa (category Ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
    the (Proto-Bantu) word *twa was "hunter-gatherer, bushpeople", alongside yaka used for the western (Mbuti) pygmies (Bayaka). As the Twa developed into...
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    Yakuts (category Articles containing Yakut-language text)
    old chronicles. All of these are derived from a word related to Turkish yaka (geographical edge, collar) referring to the Yakuts' remote position in Siberia...
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    Pende people (category Ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
    their own language (Kipende) and are particularly known for their artistic works. They are considered to be culturally similar to the Yaka and Suku peoples...
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  • pronouns are we "who", ai "what", ya "what, which" (attributive), aika, aimaka, yaka , yamaka "what sort of", aba, aiba, yaba "where", eke "who is this?", udu...
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  • Mkako or Mkaka) is a Bantu language spoken mainly in Cameroon, with some speakers in the Central African Republic and the Republic of the Congo. The main...
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