Mandara

E402508
Chadic language natural language

Mandara is a Chadic language spoken primarily in parts of Cameroon and Nigeria, associated with the Mandara (Wandala) ethnic group.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Mandara canonical 3
Mandara region 1
Wandala-Mandara 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chadic language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
associatedWithReligion Islam ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Cameroon ⓘ
Nigeria ⓘ
endangeredStatus vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicGroup Mandara people NERFINISHED ⓘ
Wandala people NERFINISHED ⓘ
glottologCode wand1266 ⓘ
glottologName Wandala ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Mandra ⓘ
Mandwara ⓘ
Mandara ⓘ
surface form: Wandala-Mandara
hasDialect Malgwa dialect ⓘ
Wandala dialect ⓘ
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic ⓘ
Fulfulde ⓘ
Hausa ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType concatenative morphology ⓘ
fusional ⓘ
hasName Wandala ⓘ
surface form: Malgwa–Wandala

Mandara self-linksurface differs ⓘ
Wandala ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants ⓘ
tonal language ⓘ
hasSyntacticFeature basic SVO word order ⓘ
isLinguisticallyDescribedIn Chadic language surveys ⓘ
iso6393Code mfi ⓘ
isPartOf Chadic languages ⓘ
surface form: Central Chadic languages
isSpokenByMinority true ⓘ
languageBranch Chadic ⓘ
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
surface form: Afroasiatic
languageSubbranch Biu–Mandara ⓘ
neighboringLanguage Mafa language ⓘ
Mofu-Gudur language ⓘ
Podoko language ⓘ
region Mandara Mountains ⓘ
spokenIn Cameroon ⓘ
Nigeria ⓘ
spokenInRegion Borno State, Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ
Far North Region (Cameroon) ⓘ
surface form: Far North Region, Cameroon
subclassOf Afroasiatic language ⓘ
Biu–Mandara language ⓘ
usedFor oral communication ⓘ
storytelling ⓘ
traditional poetry ⓘ
writingSystem Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chadic languages → majorLanguage → Mandara ⓘ
Adamawa Emirate → borderedBy → Mandara ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mandara region
Mandara → hasName → Mandara self-linksurface differs ⓘ
subject surface form: Mandara language
Mandara → hasAlternativeName → Mandara ⓘ
subject surface form: Mandara language
this entity surface form: Wandala-Mandara
Gude → neighboringLanguages → Mandara ⓘ