Yarukan Balanta
Balanta (ko Balant ) rukuni ne na harsunan Bak guda biyu masu alaƙa na yammacin Afirka waɗanda mutanen Balanta ke magana da su.

Bayani 
Balanta gabaɗaya an raba su zuwa yaruka daban-daban: Balanta-Kentohe da Balanta-Ganja.

Balanta-Kentohe 
Yaren Balanta-Kentohe ( Kəntɔhɛ )  kusan mutane 423,000 ke magana da kuma yaren a arewa ta tsakiya da tsakiyar gabar tekun Guinea-Bissau (inda a shekara ta 2006 kusan mutane 397,000 ke magana, da yaren yawancin su ana iya samun su a yankin Oio  ) haka nan a Gambia. An shirya fina-finai da sassan Littafi Mai Tsarki a Balanta-Kentohe.

Yaren Kəntɔhɛ ana yi a arewa, sai yaren Fora a kudanci. 

Ethnologue ya lissafa madadin sunayen Balanta-Kentohe a matsayin Alante, Balanda, Balant, Balanta, Balante, Ballante, Belante, Brassa, Bulanda, Frase, Fora, Kantohe (Kentohe, Queuthoe), Naga da Mane. Yaren Naga, Mane da Kantohe na iya zama yaruka daban-daban.

Balanta-Ganja 
Balanta-Ganja mutane 86,000 ne ke magana da yaren (tun daga 2006) a kusurwar kudu maso yamma da kudancin Senegal. Ilimin karatu bai kai kashi 1% na Balanta-Ganja ba.   A watan Satumba na 2000, Balanta-Ganja ya sami matsayin yaren ƙasa a Senegal, kuma tun daga lokacin ana iya koyar da shi a makarantar firamare.

Ethnologue ya lissafa madadin sunayen Balanta-Ganja a matsayin Alante, Balanda, Balant, Balante, Ballante, Belante, Brassa, Bulanda, Fjaa, Fraase (Fraasɛ). Yarukansa sune Fganja (Ganja) da Fjaalib (Blip).

Nahawu 
Balanta suna da prefixes da ƙari da aka fassara a matsayin takamaiman labarin da ya dogara da ajin suna.

Fassarar sauti 
Wadannan su ne wayoyin (phonemes) na yarukan Balanta.

Consonants 

Sautuna marasa murya  ana jin su ne kawai a yaren Guinea Bissau.

Wasula

Rubutu 
A Senegal, Dokar No. 2005-979 ta tanadi rubutun Balanta kamar haka:

Manazarta