Vere language
| Vere | |
|---|---|
| Mom Jango | |
| Region | northern Nigeria and Cameroon |
Native speakers | 110,000 (2000)[1] |
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Niger–Congo
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ver |
| Glottolog |
momj1237[2] |
The Vere language (Verre, Were), also known as Kobo or Mom Jango, is a member of the Duru branch of Savanna languages. It is spoken across the northern Nigerian–Cameroonian border.
Dialects are Mom Jango and Momi also known as Ziri. These are divergent enough they probably constitute distinct languages.
References
- ↑ Vere at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mom Jango". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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