North Mofu is an

Afro-Asiatic The Afroasiatic languages (also known as Afro-Asiatic, Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic) are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of th ...

language spoken in northern

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. Dialects are Douroun and Wazan. There is no specific glossonym (language name) covering the very close languages of the Douroum, Wazang and Douvangar massifs, nor is there a corresponding ethnonym; the speakers simply refer to themselves as "mountain people", specifying the massif when necessary. In fact, ''Mofu'' is not recognized by the speakers of these languages, except for those of a southern clan, the ''Mofaw'' ofaw Douvangar Mofu (North Mofu) is spoken in the massifs located from the south of Meri to the Tsanaga River (cantons of Douvangar, Dourourn, and Ouazzang of the commune of Meri, department of

Diamaré Diamaré is a department of Far North (''Extreme-Nord'') Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 4,665 km and at the 2005 Census had a total population of 642,227. The capital of the department is at Maroua. Subdivisions T ...

, Far North Region) by 27,500 speakers.

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Biu-Mandara languages Languages of Cameroon {{BiuMandara-lang-stub