Afro-Asiatic language
Mafa |
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Native to | Cameroon, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Sierra Leone, Sudan |
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Region | Far North Province, Borno State, Adamawa State |
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Native speakers | 2,000,000 (2005)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | maf |
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Glottolog | mafa1239 |
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Mafa is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and Northern Nigeria by the Mafa people.
Dialects
Mafa is widely spoken in the department of Mayo-Tsanaga from Mokolo to the north. Mafa includes the following dialects.[2]
- Central Mafa in Koza commune and in Mokolo town
- West Mafa in the northwest of Mokolo Commune (Magoumaz)
- East Mafa in the northeast (Soulede and Roua communes)
There are 136,000 speakers in Cameroon.[2]
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
- /ᵑɡ/ is heard as a velar nasal [ŋ] when in word-final position.[3]
Notes
- ^ Mafa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069.
- ^ Barreteau, Daniel; Le Bléis, Yves (1990). Lexique Mafa: Langue de la Famille Tchadique Parlée au Cameroun. Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom.
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