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]