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Tsuvan (also known as Matsuvan, Motsuvan, Terki, Telaki, Teleki, Tchede) is an
Afro-Asiatic The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic su ...
language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province. Tsuvan is spoken in the village (in fact, the massif) of Téléki by a group known as the Tchédé, who are often classified with the
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. It is spoken east of the canton of Tchévi, commune of Bourrha, department of Mayo-Tsanaga, Far North Region. Like Sharwa, it is also spoken the Northern Region, in the department of Mayo-Louti (commune of Mayo-Oulo). There are 2,300 speakers.


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Biu-Mandara languages Languages of Cameroon {{Cameroon-stub