Muyang language

{{Short description|Afro-Asiatic language of Cameroon}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Muyang

|states=Cameroon

|region=Far North Province

|speakers=30,000

|date=2007

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Afro-Asiatic

|fam2=Chadic

|fam3=Biu–Mandara

|fam4=Wandala–Mafa

|fam5=Mafa (A.5)

|fam6=South (a)

|iso3=muy

|glotto=muya1243

|glottorefname=Muyang

}}

Muyang is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in and near the town of Tokombéré in the department of Mayo-Sava in northern Cameroon.{{cite web|url=http://silcam.org/documents/muyang_smith1996_2134_p.pdf|title=A Sociolinguistic Survey of Muyang|website=silcam.org|author=Tony Smith|year=1996|access-date=March 16, 2018}}

The Muyang (15,000 speakers) traditionally inhabit the Muyang massif and the neighboring massifs of Mougouba, Gouadagouada, and Palbarar, which are inselbergs in the plain northeast of Tokombéré (in Mouyengué and Palbara-Goudouba cantons of Tokombéré arrondissement, Mayo-Sava department, Far North Region).{{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}}