Vere language

Vere language
Vere
Mom Jango
Spoken in northern Nigeria and Cameroon
Native speakers 105,000  (2000)
Language family
Niger–Congo
Dialects
Mom Jango
Momi
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ver

The Vere language (Verre, Were), also known as Kobo or Mom Jango, is a member of the Duru branch of Savanna languages. It is spoken across the northern Nigerian–Cameroonian border.

Dialects are Mom Jango and Momi aka Ziri. These are divergent enough they probably constitute distinct languages.



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