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Dowayo language

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Region
  
Cameroon

Dialects
  
Sewe

Glottolog
  
doya1240

Native speakers
  
(18,000 cited 1985)

ISO 639-3
  
dow

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Leko–Nimbari Duru Vere–Dowayo Dowayo

The Dowayo language (Doyayo) is a member of the Duru branch of Savanna languages.

Blench (2004) considers the Sewe dialect to be a separate language, no more closely related to Dowayo than to Koma and Vere.

References

Dowayo language Wikipedia