Native to Cameroon Native speakers 90,000 (2008) | Region Far North Province ISO 639-3 mif | |
Language family Afro-Asiatic
Chadic
Biu–Mandara
Wandala–Mafa
Mafa (A.5)
South (c)
Mofu-Gudur Signed forms Mofu-Gudur Sign Language | ||
Mofu-Gudur, or South Mofu, is an Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects are Dimeo, Gudur, Massagal, Mokong, Njeleng, and Zidim.
Speakers use an estimated 1,500 conventionalized gestures. These are used in story-telling and reciting history, but also in situations not conducive to speech; when children are born deaf, or people go deaf later in life, the family and has a system of communication available that will allow them to communicate with the entire community.
References
Mofu-Gudur language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA