Makaa (Maka), orSouth Makaa, is aBantu language of Cameroon. It is not intelligible with the other language spoken by theMakaa people,North Makaa.

The central part of the Meka area consists of the three central dialects Bésáp, Bébánde and Mbwas. Byáp in the north and Békol in the south are more geographically peripheral dialects. Byáp and Asón should not be confused with Northern Maka.^[3]

Meka covers essentially the entire northern part ofHaut-Nyong department (Eastern Region). Bébánde covers the entire northern part ofAbong-Mbang commune and alsoBebeng commune. Mbwas covers most of theDoumé area (Mbouang andDoumatang communes), and Bésáp covers the north ofNguélémendouka.^[3]

Byap occupies the eastern part of Diang commune andBélabo commune (Lom-et-Djerem department, Eastern Region), west ofBertoua. It extends into the Central and Southern Regions inNyong-et-Mfoumou (inAkonolinga andEndom communes) andDja-et-Lobo (inBengbis andZoétélé communes) departments.^[3]

There are 89,500 speakers.^[3]

• /o,õ/ may have allophones [ɔ,ɔ̃] which occur in free variation in many environments.^[4]

Nasal vowels are indicated using the cedilla ‹ ɛ̧, ɔ̧ ›. Tones are indicated using diacritics:

• the high tone with an acute accent;
• the descending high-low tone with a circumflex accent;
• the low-high rising tone with a caron;
• low tone without accent.

• Makaa
• Makaa-Njem languages
• Languages of Cameroon

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