| Vemgo-Mabas | |
| States: | Nigeria, Cameroon |
| Speakers: | 11,000 |
| Date: | 1993–2004 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Afro-Asiatic |
| Fam2: | Chadic |
| Fam3: | Biu–Mandara |
| Fam4: | Wandala–Mafa |
| Fam5: | Wandala (A.4) |
| Fam6: | West |
| Iso3: | vem |
| Glotto: | vemg1240 |
| Glottorefname: | Vemgo-Mabas |
| Dia1: | Vemgo |
| Dia2: | Mabas |
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; Blench suspects it may be a dialect of Lamang instead.[1]
In Cameroon, Mabas is spoken only in one village on the Nigerian border, namely Mabas village (Mokolo arrondissement, Mayo-Tsanaga department, Far North Region) by about 5,000 speakers (ALCAM 1984). Although closely related, Mabas is distinct from Hdi (78% lexical similarity, 36% mutual intelligibility).[2]