Where Yakoma is spoken
Yakoma is spoken in 2 countries: the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
On the map, Yakoma is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Yakoma.
How many people speak Yakoma?
Wikidata gives about 110,000 speakers (Ethnologue). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.
Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.
Where Yakoma sits in the language family tree
Glottolog classifies Yakoma as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.
- Atlantic-Congo
- Volta-Congo
- North Volta-Congo
- Cameroun-Ubangian
- Ubangi
- Ngbandi-Mongoba-Kazibati
- Ngbandic
- Nuclear Ngbandic
- Yakoma
Related languages
Other languages in the Nuclear Ngbandic group:
- Northern Ngbandi (250,000 speakers)
- Southern Ngbandi (105,000 speakers)
- Dendi (Central African Republic) (10,000 speakers)
- Mbangi (2,750 speakers)
More about Yakoma
Codes: ISO 639-3 yky, Glottolog yako1252. Glottolog macroarea: Africa.
Questions about Yakoma
Where is Yakoma spoken?
Yakoma is spoken in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.
How many people speak Yakoma?
Wikidata gives about 110,000 speakers (Ethnologue). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.
Which language family is Yakoma in?
Glottolog places Yakoma in the Atlantic-Congo family, in the branch Volta-Congo, North Volta-Congo, Cameroun-Ubangian, Ubangi, Ngbandi-Mongoba-Kazibati, Ngbandic and Nuclear Ngbandic.