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Mafa language

Mafa language

Afro-Asiatic language

Mafa is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and Northern Nigeria by the Mafa people.

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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

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Consonants

More information Labial, Dental/Alveolar ...
  • /ᵑɡ/ is heard as a velar nasal [ŋ] when in word-final position.[3]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Mafa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    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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