Malgbe (language)
| Malgbe, Goulfei | ||
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Spoken in |
Cameroon , Chad | |
| speaker | 6000 | |
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| Official language in | - | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 |
mxf |
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Malgbe (also Goulfei , Ngwalkwe or Sanbalbe called) is a Chadian language , which in the region Extrême-Nord in Cameroon and in Chad north of the capital N'djamena is spoken. It is one of the Kotoko languages and is divided into five dialects, Douguia , Mara , Walia , Dro , and the actual Malgbe . Malgbe itself is spoken in the town of Goulfey in Cameroon, Mara , Douguia and Walia in the towns of the same name, of which the former is a Chadian-Cameroonian border town and the latter two are in Chad.
Ethnologue lists the language as "6b (endangered)", according to Henry Tourneux in 2004 there were still 6000 people who spoke the language. Many people now speak Shuwa Arabic , which is increasingly displacing the native languages and dialects as the lingua franca .
A Latin script for Malgbe, which was developed in 1999, is in experimental use.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Malgbe | Ethnologue Source: Ethnologue (English), accessed on February 8, 2016