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BIU-MANDARA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of Chadic languages spoken in the border area between Cameroon and Nigeria south of Lake Chad
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Biu-Mandara" is a kind of...):
Chad; Chadic; Chadic language (a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Biu-Mandara"):
Pidlimdi; Tera; Yamaltu (a three-tone Chadic language)
Bura; Pabir; Higi; Kapsiki (a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad)
Mandara; Wandala (a Chadic language spoken in the Mandara mountains in Cameroon; has only two vowels)
Mafa; Matakam; Sukur; Daba; Kola; Musgoi; Bata; Kotoko; Mulwi; Munjuk; Musgu; Gidar (a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad)
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