Zumaya language
Zumaya is an extinct Chadic language once spoken in Cameroon. It is known only from a few words recorded from the last speaker.[1] It may have been divergent within the Masa branch of Chadic.[3]
| Zumaya | |
|---|---|
| Region | Cameroon |
| Extinct | by 2006[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zuy |
| Glottolog | zuma1239[2] |
There are no known speakers; it is thought that the language use has shifted to Fulfulde. [4]
References
- Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Zumaya". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Shryock, A. (1997). The Classification of the Masa Group of Languages. Studies in African Linguistics, 26 (1), 31-33.
- "Zumaya". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-02-10.
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