Mama
Mama is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Nigeria. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Mama, or Kantana, is a Jarawan language spoken in Nigeria.
The number of speakers is unclear. A figure of 20,000 was published in 1973. In 2011, "Kantana" (presumably the same language) was said to have 2,000–3,000 speakers, mostly over 25 years old. A partial count of the ethnic community in the 2006 census was 6,000–9,000.
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Words in Mama
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| name | lulu* | |
| skin | nku* | |
| stone | ta* | |
| tree | guni* | |
| two | mari* | |
| die | wu* | |
| path | yere* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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