Vame language

Vame or Pelasla is an Afroasiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects are Dəmwa (Dume?), Hurza, Mayo-Plata (Pəlasla, Gwendele), Mbərem (Vame-Mbreme), and Ndreme (Vame).

Vame
Pəlasla
Native to	Cameroon
Region	Far North Province
Native speakers	(8,500 cited 1992)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara Wandala–Mafa Mafa (A.5) Northeast Vame
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mlr
Glottolog	vame1236[2]

References

• Social Anthropologist and linguist Olivier Nyssens (Belgium) stayed two years (1981–1983) with the Vame people, learned their language and wrote two articles.
• Linguist Daniel Barreteau made a comparative study of Vame along with other Mandara languages.
• French linguist Veronique de Colombel made a brief lexical comparative study of 17 mandara languages including Vame.[3]
• SIl Linguist William Kinnaird wrote couple of article (2005-2006) on how to write Vame.

References

1. Vame at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Vame". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. 1982 COLOMBEL Véronique de -- Esquisse d'une classification de 18 langues tchadiques du Nord-Cameroun : Ce qu'une étude historique et sociale des migrations peut apporter à cette vision de la parenté linguistique -- In : The Chad languages in the Hamitosemitic-Nigritic border area -- Berlin : D. Reimer, 1982.