Zumaya language

{{Short description|Extinct Chadic language of Cameroon}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Zumaya

|region=Cameroon

|ethnicity=

|extinct=by 2006

|ref=Blench, 2006. [http://rogerblench.info/Language/Afroasiatic/General/AALIST.pdf The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List] (ms)

|familycolor=Afro-Asiatic

|fam2=Chadic

|fam3=Masa

|fam4=North?

|iso3=zuy

|glotto=zuma1239

|glottorefname=Zumaya

}}

Zumaya is an extinct Chadic language once spoken in Cameroon. It is known only from a few words recorded from the last speaker. It may have been divergent within the Masa branch of Chadic.Shryock, A. (1997). The Classification of the Masa Group of Languages. Studies in African Linguistics, 26 (1), 31–33.[http://elanguage.net/journals/sal/article/view/1316/1022]

There are no known speakers; it is thought that the language use has shifted to Fulfulde.{{Cite news|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/zuy|title=Zumaya|newspaper=Ethnologue|access-date=2017-02-10}}