Vemgo-Mabas
Vemgo-Mabas is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria and Cameroon.
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Vemgo-Mabas is an Afro-Asiatic language of Cameroon and Nigeria. Dialects are Vemgo, Mabas. Blench (2006) considers these to be separate languages. Ethnologue lists a third dialect, Visik in Nigeria, which is not well attested; Blench suspects it may be a dialect of Lamang instead.
In Cameroon, Mabas is spoken only in one village on the Nigerian border, namely Mabas village (Mokolo arrondissement, Mayo-Tsanaga department, Far North Region) by about 5,000 speakers (ALCAM 1984). Although closely related, Mabas is distinct from Hdi (78% lexical similarity, 36% mutual intelligibility).
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Words in Vemgo-Mabas
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | z3gun* | |
| name | z3r* | |
| eye | ili* | |
| ear | L3m3n* | |
| nose | XCin* | |
| tooth | Li7in* | |
| tongue | nEXEk* | |
| hand | dz3vu* | |
| blood | u7us* | |
| bone | Xujif* | |
| skin | Xuta* | |
| breast | u7wa* | |
| water | imi* | |
| fire | uvu* | |
| sun | fit3k* | |
| tree | ufu* | |
| leaf | LXwa* | |
| night | rvid3k* | |
| dog | kri* | |
| fish | klipi* | |
| louse | tEndi* | |
| one | tekw* | |
| two | XES* | |
| drink | sa* | |
| see | nXa* | |
| hear | sna* | |
| die | aX3mta* | |
| come | Sewi* | |
| path | jevi* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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