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Adamawa languages
The
Adamawa languages
are a putative family of 80–90 languages scattered across the
Adamawa Plateau
in central Africa, in
Nigeria
,
Cameroon
,
Central African Republic
, and
Chad
, spoken altogether by only one and a half million people (as of 1996).
Joseph Greenberg
classified them as one branch of the
Adamawa–Ubangi
family of
Niger–Congo languages
. They are among the least studied languages in
Africa
, and include many
endangered languages
; by far the largest is
Mumuye
, with 400,000 speakers. A couple of
unclassified languages
—notably
Laal
and
Jalaa
—are found along the fringes of the Adamawa area.
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