Nizaa language

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Suga
Nizaa
Native to Cameroon
Native speakers
(10,000 cited 1985) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sgi
Glottolog suga1248 [2]

Suga, also known as Galim, Nyemnyem, and Nizaa, is a Mambiloid language of Cameroon.

Cameroon Republic in West Africa

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the Bight of Biafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. Although Cameroon is not an ECOWAS member state, it is geographically and historically in West Africa with the Southern Cameroons which now form her Northwest and Southwest Regions having a strong West African history. The country is sometimes identified as West African and other times as Central African due to its strategic position at the crossroads between West and Central Africa. Cameroon is home to over 250 native languages spoken by nearly 20 million people.

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References

  1. Suga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nizaa". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.