South Giziga language

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South Giziga
Native to Cameroon
Region Far North Province
Native speakers
(60,000 cited 1991) [1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 giz
Glottolog sout3051

South Giziga is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects are Mi Mijivin, Muturami, and Rum. [1]

South Giziga (60,000 speakers) is spoken south of Maroua in the Diamaré plain around the small massifs of Loutou, Moutourwa, Midjivin, etc. (in Diamaré department, Maroua commune and Mayo-Kani department, communes of Mindif, Kaélé, and Moutourwa). [2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 South Giziga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM)[Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Volume 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN   9789956796069.|volume= has extra text (help)


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