Vemgo-Mabas language

Vemgo-Mabas
Native to Nigeria, Cameroon
Native speakers
 (11,000 cited 1993–2004)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Dialects
  • Vemgo
  • Mabas
Language codes
ISO 639-3 vem
Glottolog vemg1240[2]

Vemgo-Mabas is an Afro-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 of Lamang instead.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Vemgo-Mabas at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Vemgo-Mabas". 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)


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