Mama language

{{Short description|Bantu language spoken in Nigeria}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Mama

|altname=Kantana

|states=Nigeria

|region=Nassarawa State

|speakers=2,000–3,000?

|date=2001

|ref=

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Volta-Congo

|fam4=Benue–Congo

|fam5=Bantoid

|fam6=Southern Bantoid

|fam7=Bantu

|fam8=Mbam-Bube-Jarawan

|fam9=Jarawan

|fam10=Nigerian Jarawan

|iso3=mma

|glotto=mama1272

|glottorefname=Mama

}}

Mama, or Kantana, is a Bantu language spoken in Nigeria.

The number of speakers is unclear. A figure of 20,000 was published in 1973.{{e18|mma|Mama}} In 2011, "Kantana" (presumably the same language) was said to have 2,000–3,000 speakers, mostly over 25 years old.{{Cite web |url=http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2011-171_jkt.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-02-20 |archive-date=2014-09-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907000403/http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2011-171_jkt.pdf |url-status=dead }} A partial count of the ethnic community in the 2006 census was 6,000–9,000.