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Bassa people

Басса · Q810462

language area per Glottologcensus counts
466,477
Liberia, census 2008 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
Kru
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Liberia: 466,477 people in the 2008 census.

Main language: Bassa. Glottolog classifies it in the Kru family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Liberia2008 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Bassa» · [1]
466,477

Languages and their lineage

Bassa

  1. Krukrua1234
  2. Greater Western Krugrea1300
  3. Western Kruwest2485
  4. Wee-Bassa-Klaoweeb1234
  5. Bassa-Klaobass1266
  6. Bassaicbass1262
  7. Bassa-Gbeebass1267
  8. Bassanucl1418

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Liberia, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)