Basa may refer to:
Agreements
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Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement, between National Aviation Authority regulators
People
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Basa (surname)
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Bassa people (Cameroon)
The Bassa (also spelled Basa or Basaa and sometimes known as Bassa-Bakongo) are a Bantu ethnic group in Cameroon. They number approximately 800,000 individuals. The Bassa speak the Basaa language.
History
For centuries, the Bassa lived along t ...
, also spelled Basa, an ethnic group
* Basa, leader and namesake of the
Basingas
The Basingas were an Anglo-Saxon tribe, whose territory in the Loddon Valley formed a '' regio'' or administrative subdivision of the early Kingdom of Wessex. Their leader, Basa, gave the tribe its name which survives in the names of Old Basing a ...
, an Anglo-Saxon tribe
Languages
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Basaa language
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.
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, also spelled Basa, a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon
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Basa languages, a cluster of Kainji languages spoken in Nigeria
Places
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Basa River, Romania
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Basa, Nepal, a village development committee
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Basa, Sudan, a village
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Basa Air Base, Floridablanca, Pampanga, Philippines
Organizations
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British Atomic Scientists Association, founded in 1946
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Black and Asian Studies Association, set up in London in 1991
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BASA Film, the Afghanistan cinema club
Other uses
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Basa (fish), a type of catfish
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''Basa'' (cicada)
See also
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BASA-press (1992–2009), the oldest independent news agency in Moldova
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Bassa (disambiguation)
Bassa may refer to:
People
* Bassa people (Cameroon)
** Basaa language, a member of the Bantu languages family
* Bassa people (Liberia)
** Bassa language, a member of the Kru languages family
** Bassa script
Places
* Bassa, Chamba, village in ...
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Bhāṣā
''Bhāṣā'' (or one of its derived forms) is the word for "language" in many South and Southeast Asian languages, which derives from the Sanskrit word ' () meaning "speech" or "spoken language". In transliteration from Sanskrit or Pali, bhasa ...
, the word for "language" in many Asian languages
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