Vame language

Vame language

language
name=Vame
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Cameroon
region=Far North Province
speakers=8,500 (1992)
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Chadic
fam3=Biu-Mandara
fam4=A
fam5=A.5
iso3=mlr

Vame is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects are Demwa, Hurza, Mayo-Plata, Mberem, and Ndreme. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

Notes

References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=mlr Ethnologue entry for Vame]


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