Majera language

{{Short description|Chadic language spoken in Chad and Cameroon}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Majera

|states=Chad, Cameroon

|region=

|speakers=500

|date=2004

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Afro-Asiatic

|fam2=Chadic

|fam3=Biu–Mandara

|fam4=East–Central

|fam5=Mida'a

|iso3=xmj

|glotto=maje1243

|glottorefname=Majera

}}

Majera (Mazera{{which lang|date=June 2022}}) is a minor Afro-Asiatic language of Chad and Cameroon.

In Cameroon, Majera is spoken in and around Majéra in the arrondissement of Zina, Logone-et-Chari Department, Far North Region. In the 1980s, there were 5,000 speakers or slightly less in Cameroon (ALCAM 1984). It is also spoken in Chad.{{cite book|editor-last=Binam Bikoi|editor-first=Charles|date=2012|title=Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM)|trans-title=Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon|volume=1: Inventaire des langues|language=fr|location=Yaoundé|publisher=CERDOTOLA|series=Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC)|isbn=9789956796069}}

References

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{{Languages of Cameroon}}

{{Biu–Mandara languages}}

Category:Biu-Mandara languages

Category:Languages of Chad

Category:Languages of Cameroon

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