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Mafa is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and Northern Nigeria by the Mafa people.

Mafa
Mafahay
Native to	Cameroon, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Sierra Leone, Sudan
Region	Far North Province, Borno State, Adamawa State
Native speakers	2,000,000 (2005)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara Wandala–Mafa Mafa languages (A.5) South (c) Mafa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	maf
Glottolog	mafa1239

The term Matakam is traditionally seen as pejorative.[2]

Dialects

Mafa is widely spoken in the department of Mayo-Tsanaga from Mokolo to the north. Mafa includes the following dialects.[2]

• Central Mafa in Koza commune and in Mokolo town
• West Mafa in the northwest of Mokolo Commune (Magoumaz)
• East Mafa in the northeast (Soulede and Roua communes)

There are 136,000 speakers in Cameroon.[2]

Notes

На других языках

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[de] Mafa (Sprache)

Das Mafa (oder mofa, matakam) ist eine tschadische Sprache, die in Nord-Kamerun im Departement Mayo-Tsanaga sowie in Nigeria im Bundesstaat Borno gesprochen wird.

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- [en] Mafa language

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[fr] Mafa (langue)

Le mafa (ou mofa, matakam) est une langue tchadique parlée au Nord du Cameroun dans le département de Mayo-Tsanaga, ainsi qu'au Nigeria, dans l'État de Borno.

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