Maslam

Facts

  • Language: Maslam
  • Alternate names: Mandage, Mendage, Mandagué, Maltam, Kotoko-Maltam
  • Language code: msv
  • Language family: Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, Biu-Mandara, B, B.1, Kotoko Proper, North (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 5,000-6,000
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script:

More information:

    ‘Mandage’ is used by the Kotoko to refer to either the northern group of Kotoko languages (Mpade, Afade, Maslam (See: [[Maslam]]), Malgbe) or the Kotoko group as a whole (including Mser and Lagwan). Muslim.

    Maslam is spoken in Cameroon, Chad, Africa.