Dowayo language

Dowayo
Doyayo
Region Cameroon
Native speakers
unknown (18,000 cited 1985)[1]
Niger–Congo
Dialects
Sewe
Language codes
ISO 639-3 dow
Glottolog doya1240[2]

The Dowayo language (Doyayo) is a member of the Duru branch of Savanna languages.

Blench (2004) considers the Sewe dialect to be a separate language, no more closely related to Dowayo than to Koma and Vere.

References

  1. Dowayo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Doyayo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.