Vame language

Vame
Pəlasla
Native to	Cameroon
Region	Far North Province
Native speakers	8,500 (1992)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara Wandala–Mafa Mafa (A.5) Northeast Vame
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mlr
Glottolog	vame1236[2]

Vame is an Afroasiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects are Dəmwa (Dume?), Hurza, Mayo-Plata (Pəlasla, Gwendele), Mbərem (Vame-Mbreme), and Ndreme (Vame).

References

• Social Anthropologist and linguist Olivier Nyssens (Belgium) stayed two years (1981–1983) with the Vame people, learned their language and wrote two articles.
• Linguist Daniel Barreteau made a comparative study of Vame along with other Mandara languages.
• French linguist Veronique de Colombel made a brief lexical comparative study of 17 mandara languages including Vame.^[3]
• SIl Linguist William Kinnaird wrote couple of article (2005-2006) on how to write Vame.

References

1. Vame at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Vame". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. 1982 COLOMBEL Véronique de -- Esquisse d'une classification de 18 langues tchadiques du Nord-Cameroun : Ce qu'une étude historique et sociale des migrations peut apporter à cette vision de la parenté linguistique -- In : The Chad languages in the Hamitosemitic-Nigritic border area -- Berlin : D. Reimer, 1982.