Northern Cameroon, north-western Central African Republic, southern Chad, and eastern Nigeria
Linguistic classification
Niger–Congo?
Atlantic–Congo
Adamawa–Ubangi
Adamawa
Subdivisions
Tula–Waja
Leko–Nimbari
Mbum–Day
Waja–Jen
Nyingwom
Oblo (?)
Glottolog
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The Adamawa/ædəˈmɑːwə/ languages are a putative family of 80–90 languages scattered across the Adamawa Plateau in Central Africa, in northern Cameroon, north-western Central African Republic, southern Chad, and eastern Nigeria, spoken altogether by only one and a half million people (as of 1996). Joseph Greenberg classified them as one branch of the Adamawa–Ubangi family of Niger–Congo languages. They are among the least studied languages in Africa, and include many endangered languages; by far the largest is Mumuye, with 400,000 speakers. A couple of unclassified languages—notably Laal and Jalaa—are found along the fringes of the Adamawa area.
Geographically, the Adamawa languages lie near the location of the postulated Niger–Congo – Central Sudanic contact that may have given rise to the Atlantic–Congo family, and so may represent the central radiation of that family[citation needed].
The Adamawa /ædəˈmɑːwə/ languages are a putative family of 80–90 languages scattered across the Adamawa Plateau in Central Africa, in northern Cameroon...
Savannas languages, also known as Gur–Adamawa or Adamawa–Gur, is a branch of the Niger–Congo languages that includes Greenberg's Gur and Adamawa–Ubangui...
fewer people are using their ethnic languages in homes. Languages of Adamawa State listed by LGA: The Governor of Adamawa State which acts as the Executive...
Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of Adamaua Adamawalanguages, a family of languages spoken in the above area Adamawa (cattle), an African breed of cattle This...
Adamawa family, since many "Adamawa" languages in fact share more similarities with various (Central) Gur languages than with other Adamawalanguages...
Niger–Congo languages. This latter group comprises one Senegambian language (Fulfulde), 28 Adamawalanguages, and 142 Benue–Congo languages (130 of which...
Adamawa Fulfulde is a variety of the Fula language. It is spoken mainly in Cameroon but also by significant communities residing in Nigeria, Chad, and...
migrating west. Although Adamawalanguages are spoken adjacently to Chadic languages, interaction between Chadic and Adamawa is limited. Pronouns in Proto-Chadic...
Adamawalanguage-family proposal. They are ultimately part of the Niger–Congo family, and have exerted a significant influence on Laal. Bua languages...
Kɪtʊlɛ: an Adamawalanguage of East-Central Nigeria. Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich. 2014. The languages of the Tula – Waja Group. AdamawaLanguages Project...
it appears. Joseph Greenberg counted it as one of the Bambukic languages of the Adamawa family. Boyd (1989) assigned it its own branch within Waja–Jen...
the then-little-known Ubangian languages as Niger–Congo and placed them within the Adamawalanguages as "Eastern Adamawa". They were soon removed to a...
is a Adamawa–Ubangi language of Central Africa. It is spoken by about 50,000 people in Cameroon and the Central African Republic. The Mbum language is spoken...
Duru languages are a group of Savanna languages spoken in northern Cameroon and eastern Nigeria. They were labeled "G4" in Joseph Greenberg's Adamawa language-family...
branch, G10, within the Adamawa family. When Blench (2008) broke up Adamawa, Lunguda was made a branch of the Bambukic languages. According to the Ethnologue...
The Adamawa Region (French: Région de l'Adamaoua) is a constituent region of the Republic of Cameroon. It borders the Centre and East regions to the south...
acquired agriculture from the Sara. Proto-Gbaya vocabulary shared with Adamawalanguages includes millet farming vocabulary, as well as terms for the elephant...
Doyayo (ethnonym: Dowayo) is a language of the Duru branch of Adamawalanguages spoken in Cameroon. Doyayo (Doo²³ya̰a̰¹yɔ¹ 'man's mouth'; alternatively...
Daka within his Adamawa proposal, as group G3, but Bennett (1983) demonstrated to general satisfaction that it is a Benue–Congo language, though its placement...
of the Adamawalanguages. It is spoken in northeastern Nigeria. It is classified in the Leko–Nimbari branch of Savanna languages, as Adamawa is no longer...
of the Duru languages, Kleinewillinghöfer finds no evidence of it being a Duru language and treats it as a separate group within the Adamawa–Gur continuum...
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