Zumaya language

Zumaya is an extinct Chadic language once spoken in Cameroon. It is known only from a few words recorded from the last speaker.[1] It may have been divergent within the Masa branch of Chadic.[3]

Zumaya
RegionCameroon
Extinctby 2006[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3zuy
Glottologzuma1239
ELPZumaya[2]

There are no known speakers; it is thought that the language use has shifted to Fulfulde. [4]

References

  1. Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Zumaya.
  3. Shryock, A. (1997). The Classification of the Masa Group of Languages. Studies in African Linguistics, 26 (1), 31-33.
  4. "Zumaya". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-02-10.


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