Basaa is also found in Océan Department (commune of Bipindi, Southern Region).
Hijuk is spoken only in the quarter of Niki in Batanga commune, in Yangben Canton (Ch.
Hijuk is a Basaa dialect, despite its geographical location in the southeast of Bokito arrondissement (Mbam-et-Inoubou department, Central Region).
[3] Basaa contrasts four tones: high, low, high-to-low (falling) and low-to-high (rising).
The language uses a Latin-based alphabet, with the addition of the letters Ɓɓ, Ɛɛ, Ŋŋ, Ɔɔ, ten multigraphs, as well as acute, grave, and circumflex accents:[4] Macron and caron diacritics may be used for marking tone in reference works, for example the dictionary by Pierre Emmanuel Njock.