Vemgo-Mabas language

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]

Vemgo-Mabas
Native toNigeria, Cameroon
Native speakers
(11,000 cited 1993–2004)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Dialects
  • Vemgo
  • Mabas
Language codes
ISO 639-3vem
Glottologvemg1240[2]

References

  1. 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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