Mada language (Cameroon)
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| Mada (Cameroon) | ||
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| Spoken in: | Cameroon | |
| Region: | Far North Province | |
| Total speakers: | 17,000 (1982) | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu-Mandara A A.5 Mada (Cameroon) |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | mxu | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Mada is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. [1] It is distinct from the Mada language of Nigeria, which is a Niger-Congo language. ISO 639-3 distinguishes the two by referring to Mada (Cameroon) and Mada (Nigeria)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
[edit] References
- Ethnologue entry for Mada
- Daniel Barreteau & André Brunet. 2000. Dictionnaire mada. Berlin: Reimer.
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