Muyang is an
Afro-Asiatic
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic ...
language spoken in and near the town of
Tokombéré in the department of
Mayo-Sava in northern
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west- central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; th ...
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The Muyang (15,000 speakers) traditionally inhabit the Muyang massif and the neighboring massifs of Mougouba, Gouadagouada, and Palbarar, which are inselbergs in the plain northeast of
Tokombéré (in
Mouyengué and
Palbara-Goudouba cantons of
Tokombéré arrondissement,
Mayo-Sava department, Far North Region).
References
External links
Muyang Provisional LexiconA dictionary of words in the Muyang language
Biu-Mandara languages
Languages of Cameroon
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