Afade (language)
Afade, Mandagué | ||
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Spoken in |
Cameroon , Nigeria | |
speaker | 5000 | |
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ISO 639 -1 |
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ISO 639 -2 |
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ISO 639-3 |
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Afade (also called Afadeh or Mandagué ) is a Chadian language that is spoken in the Extrême-Nord region in Cameroon and in Nigeria in the Local Government Area Ngala . The center of the language is the small town of Afade ; it is also spoken in the vicinity of this and in 12 villages in neighboring Nigeria.
It is one of the Kotoko languages and is closely related to Malgbe , Maslam and Mpade . Ethnologue lists the language as "6b (endangered)", according to Henry Tourneux in 2004, 5000 people still spoke the language. However, many people now speak Shuwa Arabic , which is increasingly displacing the native languages and dialects as the lingua franca .
The language is written in Latin script.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Afade | Ethnologue Source: Ethnologue (English), accessed on February 9, 2016