Biu-mandara (Noun)
Meaning
A group of Chadic languages spoken in the border area between Cameroon and Nigeria south of Lake Chad.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The language consultant focused on documenting biu-mandara in various spoken dialects.
- Biu-mandara is part of the Bantu-Bantoid subgroup within the Chadic languages.
- Many linguists traveled to the Cameroon-Nigeria border area to study biu-mandara dialects.
- Scholars considered biu-mandara a threatened language group without a unified writing system.
- In Nigeria and Cameroon's shared region near Lake Chad, numerous people still use biu-mandara languages as a primary means of communication.