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Maɗa language

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2022
Entity authorityQ3441206 ↗
Source-derived summary

Maɗa is a Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon. It has 17,000 speakers.

The Maɗa (17,000 speakers) inhabit the Maɗa massif, on the eastern edge of the Mandara Mountains, between the Wuzlam massif to the north and the Zélgwa massif to the south. They live in the canton of Madakalkoss, arrondissement of Tokombéré, department of Mayo-Sava, Far North Region.

Vowels

Maɗa has seven vowels.

Consonants

Maɗa has 25 consonants in total, including implosives, lateral fricatives, and prenasalized stops.

Notes

References

Daniel Barreteau & André Brunet. 2000. Dictionnaire mada. Berlin: Reimer.

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The public source identifies “Maɗa language” as language. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Maɗa and language.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Maɗa and language providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 5, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q3441206. The Library of Congress control number is sh00007291. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maɗa language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.