their present positions from further east. Current evidence can trace the language back to the area just east of the current Cameroon-Central African Republic border, around the towns of Berberati and Gaza in the mid 19th century. Further extrapolation into history is speculative, though being a Bantu language it is likely to have followed the Bantu migrations out of their ancestral homeland in the southern Cameroon-Nigeria borderlands. For their known history, the Kako language has been in close contact with various dialects of the Gbaya language. This has resulted in numerous borrowings of words. In fact, the Bεra dialect of Kako and the Yaáyuwee dialect of Kako share nearly 1% of their words, with a further 10-15% being cognates. Small group has migrated during last century in Gabon from Cameroon and has settled mainly around Batouri-Mbitam. Writing System Kako is written with two standardized alphabets following the general alphabet of Cameroonian languages, one for East Kako{ and the other for west Kako. Nasalized vowels are indicated using the cedilla: for East Kako and for West Kako. Tones are usually not indicated, lexical tone never is, but grammatical tone can be indicated with accents when there is ambiguity. References Languages of Cameroon Pomo–Bomwali languages