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- Phonology Vowels Consonants Tone
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{{About||a Kru language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone|Bassa language|a Kainji language spoken in Nigeria|Basa language (disambiguation){{!}}Basa language}}{{Infobox language
|name=Basaa
|altname=Mbene
|nativename=ɓasaá
|states=Cameroon
|region=Centre and Littoral Provinces
|speakers=300,000
|date=2005 SIL
|ref = e18
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=Atlantic–Congo
|fam3=Benue–Congo
|fam4=Southern Bantoid
|fam5=Bantu (Zone A)
|fam6=Basaa languages (A.40)
|iso2=bas
|iso3=bas
|glotto=basa1284
|glottorefname=Basa (Cameroon)
|guthrie=A.43a
|notice=IPA
}}Basaa (also spelled Bassa, Basa, Bissa), or Mbene, is a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon by the Basaa people. It is spoken by about 300,000 people in the Centre and Littoral regions. Maho (2009) lists North and South Kogo as dialects. PhonologyVowels| Front | Back | | Close | {{IPA|i, iː}} | {{IPA|u, uː}} |
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| Close-mid | {{IPA|e, eː}} | {{IPA|o, oː}} |
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| Open-mid | {{IPA|ɛ, ɛː}} | {{IPA|ɔ, ɔː}} |
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| Open | {{IPA|a, aː}} |
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Consonants| Bilabial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Labial-velar | | Stop | {{IPA|p}} | {{IPA|t}} | {{IPA|c, ɟ}} | {{IPA|k}} | {{IPA|kʷ, ɡʷ}} |
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| Implosive | {{IPA|ɓ}} |
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| Fricative | {{IPA|s}} | {{IPA|x}} |
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| Nasal | {{IPA|m}} | {{IPA|n}} | {{IPA|ɲ}} | {{IPA|ŋ}} | {{IPA|ŋʷ}} |
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| Prenasalized stop | {{IPA|ᵐb}} | {{IPA|ⁿd}} | {{IPA|ᶮɟ}} | {{IPA|ᵑɡ}} |
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| Lateral | {{IPA|l}} |
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| Approximant | {{IPA|j}} | {{IPA|w}} |
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- When not root-initial and not after a pause, the voiceless stops {{IPA|/p t k/}} are realized as voiced stops or voiced fricatives.
ToneBasaa contrasts four tones: high, low, high-to-low (falling) and low-to-high (rising). References- {{cite book | author=Hyman, Larry M. | year=2003 | chapter = Basaá (A.43) |editor1=Nurse, Derek |editor2=Philippson, Gérard | title = The Bantu Languages | pages=257–282 | publisher=Routledge | isbn=0-7007-1134-1}}
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