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Vemgo Mabas language

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Native to
  
Nigeria, Cameroon

Dialects
  
Vemgo Mabas

Glottolog
  
vemg1240

Native speakers
  
11,000 (1993–2004)

ISO 639-3
  
vem

Language family
  
Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara Wandala–Mafa Wandala (A.4) West Vemgo-Mabas

Vemgo-Mabas is an Afro-Asiatic language of Cameroon and Nigeria. Dialects are Vemgo, Mabas. Blench (2006) considers these to be separate languages. Ethnologue lists a third dialect, Visik in Nigeria, which is not well attested; Blench suspects it may be a dialect of Lamang instead.

References

Vemgo-Mabas language Wikipedia