| Vemgo-Mabas | |
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| Native to | Nigeria,Cameroon |
Native speakers | (11,000 cited 1993–2004)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | vem |
| Glottolog | vemg1240 |
Vemgo-Mabas is anAfro-Asiatic language of Cameroon and Nigeria. Dialects are Vemgo, Mabas. Blench (2006) considers these to be separate languages.Ethnologue lists a third dialect, Visik in Nigeria, which is not well attested;[1] Blench suspects it may be a dialect ofLamang instead.[2]
In Cameroon, Mabas is spoken only in one village on the Nigerian border, namely Mabas village (Mokolo arrondissement,Mayo-Tsanaga department, Far North Region) by about 5,000 speakers (ALCAM 1984). Although closely related, Mabas is distinct fromHdi (78% lexical similarity, 36% mutual intelligibility).[3]
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