Native to Cameroon, Chad | ISO 639-3 mpi | |
Region Far North Province, Cameroon; west Chad Native speakers 16,000 in Cameroon (2004) Language family Afro-Asiatic
Chadic
Biu–Mandara
Kotoko (B.1)
North
Mpadə Glottolog mpad1242 (Mpade)
ngal1301 (Ngala) | ||
Mpadə is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects are Bodo, Digam, Mpade (Makari), Shoe (Shewe), and Woulki.
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The language is sometimes known as Makari, after one of the towns where it is spoken. Ngala further west (as described by Barth) once spoke a dialect similar to Makari, but it was moribund by the 1920s, the people having shifted to Kanuri.
Consonants
Mpade has the following consonants.
Vowels
Mpade has the following vowels.
References
Mpade language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA