Baba language

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Baba, also known as Supapyak’, is a Grassfields Bantu language spoken in Cameroon by the Papiak people. As of 2005, about 25,000 people spoke it natively. It belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, in the Grassfields group of Eastern Grassfields.

Baba uses simple syllables: (C)V(C) with syllabic nasals. Final consonants can be p, m, ŋ, ʔ, r, or x. There are no vowel-initial roots, but words are formed from morphemes. When a nasal meets a vowel, voiceless stops become voiced, except for the /ɡ͡b/ cluster, which is a separate sound. Some sounds have alternate pronunciations, such as [r~d͡z], [l~d], [j~d͡ʒ], and [ɣ~g~w]. Vowels contrast in high and low tones.