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Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cameroon
South Giziga is an
Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern
Cameroon . Dialects are Mi Mijivin, Muturami, and Rum.
[1]
South Giziga (60,000 speakers) is spoken south of
Maroua in the
Diamaré plain around the small massifs of
Loutou ,
Moutourwa ,
Midjivin , etc. (in
Diamaré department,
Maroua commune and
Mayo-Kani department, communes of
Mindif ,
Kaélé , and
Moutourwa ).
[2]
Notes
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a
b
South Giziga at
Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon ]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA.
ISBN
9789956796069 .
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