Zumaya language

Zumaya
Region Cameroon
Extinct by 2006[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zuy
Glottolog zuma1239[2]

Zumaya is an extinct Chadic language once spoken in Cameroon. It is known only from a few words recorded from the last speaker.[1] It may have been divergent within the Masa branch of Chadic.[3]

There are no known speakers; it is though that the language use has shifted to Fulfulde. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Zumaya". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Shryock, A. (1997). The Classification of the Masa Group of Languages. Studies in African Linguistics, 26 (1), 31-33.
  4. "Zumaya". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-02-10.


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