Vere language
| Vere | |
|---|---|
| Mom Jango | |
| Region | northern Nigeria and Cameroon |
Native speakers | 110,000 (2000)[1] |
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Niger–Congo
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| Dialects |
Mom Jango
Momi
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ver |
| Glottolog |
momj1237[2] |
The Vere language (Verre, Were), also known as Kobo or Mom Jango, is a member of the Duru branch of Savanna languages. It is spoken across the northern Nigerian–Cameroonian border.
Dialects are Mom Jango and Momi AKA Ziri. These are divergent enough they probably constitute distinct languages.
References
- ↑ Vere at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mom Jango". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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