Mpade language

Mpadə
Mpadə
Native to	Cameroon, Chad
Region	Far North Province, Cameroon; west Chad
Native speakers	16,000 in Cameroon (2004)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara Kotoko (B.1) North Mpadə; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mpi
Glottolog	mpad1242 Mpade; ngal1301 Ngala
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Mpadə is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects are Bodo, Biamo, Digam, Mpade (Makari), Shoe (Shewe), and Woulki.^[2]

The language is sometimes known as Makari, after one of the towns where it is spoken. Ngala further west (as described by Barth) once spoke a dialect similar to Makari, but it was moribund by the 1920s, the people having shifted to Kanuri.

^ Mpadə at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Frawley, William J., ed. (2003). "Mpade". International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Volume 1. Oxford University Press. p. 238.

[e18-1] Mpadə at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Frawley, William J., ed. (2003). "Mpade". International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Volume 1. Oxford University Press. p. 238.

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