Mafa is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern

Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

and Northern

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by the

Mafa people The Mafa also called Mafahay, is an ethnic group localized in northern Cameroon, Northern Nigeria and also scattered in other countries like Mali, Chad, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone. History The Mafahay, a Mafa tribe, migrated from Roua ...

. The term ''Matakam'' is traditionally seen as pejorative.

Dialects

Mafa is widely spoken in the department of

Mayo-Tsanaga Mayo-Tsanaga is a department of Extreme-Nord Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 4,393 km and at the 2005 Census had a total population of 699,971. The capital of the department is at Mokolo. It is located within the Man ...

from

Mokolo Mokolo is the departmental capital and largest city of the Mayo-Tsanaga department, in the Far North Province of Cameroon. It is the fourth largest city in the Far North Province, after Maroua, Yagoua, and Kousséri. It is located in the Manda ...

to the north. Mafa includes the following dialects. *Central Mafa in

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commune and in

town *West Mafa in the northwest of

Commune (Magoumaz) *East Mafa in the northeast ( Soulede and

Roua In Tahiti and Society Islands mythology, Roua (or Rahoua or Tubua), is the creator god of the Tuamotus. He is the father of Fati, the god of the Moon, and all the stars by Taonoui In Tahiti and Society Islands mythology, Taonoui is the mother by ...

communes) There are 136,000 speakers in Cameroon.

Notes

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