Mpade (language)
| Mpade, Makari | ||
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Spoken in |
Cameroon , Chad | |
| speaker | 16,000 | |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
- |
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| ISO 639-3 |
mpi |
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Mpade (also Makari called) is a Chadian language , which in the region Extrême-Nord in Cameroon west of Kousséri and in Chad north of the capital N'djamena is spoken. It is one of the Kotoko languages and is divided into the five dialects Bodo , Digam , Shewe , Woulki and the actual Mpade . Mpade itself is spoken in the city of Makari in Cameroon, Bodo and Woulki in the towns of the same name. The dialect Shewe is spoken in Mani in Chad directly on the border with Cameroon, on the Shari River .
Ethnologue lists the language as "6b (endangered)", according to Henry Tourneux the language was mastered by 16,000 people in 2004, making it the largest of the Kotoko languages. Many Kotoko now speak Shuwa Arabic , which is increasingly displacing the native languages and dialects as the lingua franca . The Mpade language is mainly spoken at home, but by all age groups there. The position of the language is compared to the other Kotoko languages such as B. Maslam still quite good.
The language is written in Latin script, but the literacy rate of native speakers is very low. Grammar and poetry are now being taught, and parts of the Bible have been translated into Mpade.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mpade - Ethnologue , accessed February 11, 2016