Daba language

Daba
Native to Cameroon, Nigeria
Region Far North Province; Adamawa State
Native speakers
25,000 (2007)[1]
Dialects
  • Daba
  • Mazagway (Musgoy)
  • Nive
  • Pologozom
  • Tpala (Kola)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 dbq
Glottolog nucl1683[2]

Daba (also known as Dabba) is a Chadic dialect cluster spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province and in one village in neighboring Nigeria. Blench (2006) considers Mazagway to be a dialect.[3]

Notes

  1. Daba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nuclear Daba". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)

References

  • J. Mouchet. 1966. Le parler daba: esquisse grammaticale. Yaounde: Institut de Recherches Scientifiques du Cameroun.


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