Mafa | |
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Mafahay | |
Native to | Cameroon, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Sierra Leone, Sudan |
Region | Far North Province, Borno State, Adamawa State |
Native speakers | 2,000,000 (2005) [1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
maf |
Glottolog |
mafa1239 |
Mafa is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and Northern Nigeria by the Mafa people.
Mafa is widely spoken in the department of Mayo-Tsanaga from Mokolo to the north. Mafa includes the following dialects. [2]
There are 136,000 speakers in Cameroon. [2]
Front | Central | Back | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Close | i iː | ɨ | ʉ | u uː | |
Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ɔ | ||
Open | a |
Labial | Dental/ Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
plain | sibilant | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ( ŋ) | ||||||
Stop/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | t͡s | t͡ʃ | k | kʷ | ʔ | |
voiced | b | d | d͡z | d͡ʒ | ɡ | ɡʷ | |||
prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ⁿd͡z | ⁿd͡ʒ | ᵑɡ | ᵑɡʷ | |||
implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | ɬ | s | ʃ | h | hʷ | ||
voiced | v | ɮ | z | ʒ | ɣ | ɣʷ | |||
Approximant | l | j | w | ||||||
Trill | r |
Mafa | |
---|---|
Mafahay | |
Native to | Cameroon, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Sierra Leone, Sudan |
Region | Far North Province, Borno State, Adamawa State |
Native speakers | 2,000,000 (2005) [1] |
Afro-Asiatic
| |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
maf |
Glottolog |
mafa1239 |
Mafa is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and Northern Nigeria by the Mafa people.
Mafa is widely spoken in the department of Mayo-Tsanaga from Mokolo to the north. Mafa includes the following dialects. [2]
There are 136,000 speakers in Cameroon. [2]
Front | Central | Back | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Close | i iː | ɨ | ʉ | u uː | |
Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ɔ | ||
Open | a |
Labial | Dental/ Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
plain | sibilant | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ( ŋ) | ||||||
Stop/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | t͡s | t͡ʃ | k | kʷ | ʔ | |
voiced | b | d | d͡z | d͡ʒ | ɡ | ɡʷ | |||
prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ⁿd͡z | ⁿd͡ʒ | ᵑɡ | ᵑɡʷ | |||
implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | ɬ | s | ʃ | h | hʷ | ||
voiced | v | ɮ | z | ʒ | ɣ | ɣʷ | |||
Approximant | l | j | w | ||||||
Trill | r |