Daba language

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Daba
Spoken in: Cameroon, Nigeria 
Region: Far North Province; Adamawa State
Total speakers: 17,500 (1977)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Chadic
  Biu-Mandara
   A
    A.7
     Daba
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: –
ISO 639-3: dbq
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Daba (also known as Dabba) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province and in one village in neighboring Nigeria. [1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

[edit] References

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

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