Mafa language

Mafa
Mafa
Mafahay
Native to	Cameroon, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Sierra Leone, Sudan
Region	Far North Province, Borno State, Adamawa State
Native speakers	2,000,000 (2005)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara Wandala–Mafa Mafa languages (A.5) South (c) Mafa; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	maf
Glottolog	mafa1239

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

The term Matakam is traditionally seen as pejorative.^[2]

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 ( and communes)

There are 136,000 speakers in Cameroon.^[2]

Notes[]

^ Mafa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Volume 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069. |volume= has extra text (help)

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[e18-1] Mafa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[ALCAM2012-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Volume 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069. |volume= has extra text (help)

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