Mpade
Mpade is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad.
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Mpadə is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects are Bodo, Biamo, Digam, Mpade (Makari), Shoe (Shewe), and Woulki.
The language is sometimes known as Makari, after one of the towns where it is spoken. Ngala further west (as described by Barth) once spoke a dialect similar to Makari, but it was moribund by the 1920s, the people having shifted to Kanuri.
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Words in Mpade
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| name | shimu | |
| eye | sɨ | |
| ear | shimu | |
| water | ame | |
| night | faɗe | |
| cow | sha | |
| eat | sɨm | |
| die | madɨ | |
| honey | mam |
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- LagwanAfro-Asiatic28% alike
- BudumaAfro-Asiatic17% alike
- KwaamiAfro-Asiatic11% alike
- Orizaba NahuatlUto-Aztecan10% alike
- BanaAfro-Asiatic10% alike
- Marghi CentralAfro-Asiatic10% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
Nearby languages
Elsewhere
Glottolog · mpad1242 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · mpi