Daba language

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Daba
Native to
Far North Province; Adamawa State
Native speakers
25,000 (2007)[1]
  • Daba languages
    (A.7)
    • South
      • Daba
Dialects
  • Daba
  • Mazagway (Musgoy)
  • Nive
  • Pologozom
  • Tpala (Kola)
Language codes
ISO 639-3dbq
Glottolognucl1683
ELPDaba

Daba (also known as Dabba) is a

Far North Province and in one village in neighboring Nigeria. Blench (2006) considers Mazagway to be a dialect.[2]

Daba is spoken throughout the northern part of the Mayo-Louti department in the Northern Region (in Mayo-Oulo commune), extending slightly into Mayo-Tsanaga Department (in Hina and Bourrha communes) and Diamaré Department (Ndoukoula commune in the Far North Region). Daba (Kanakana), the most western variety that is isolated from the rest of the dialects, is spoken in Douroum, in the northern part of the Mayo-Oulo commune and in the Garoua Daba area (enclave of Hina commune) and in Bourrha commune. Tpala, in the northeast, is spoken in the Ndoukoula area.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Daba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
  3. .

References

  • J. Mouchet. 1966. Le parler daba: esquisse grammaticale. Yaounde: Institut de Recherches Scientifiques du Cameroun.