Mpade language

Mpadə
Native to	Cameroon, Chad
Region	Far North Province, Cameroon; west Chad
Native speakers	16,000 in Cameroon (2004)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara Kotoko (B.1) North Mpadə
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	mpad1242  (Mpade) ngal1301  (Ngala)
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Mpadə is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects are Bodo, Digam, Mpade (Makari), Shoe (Shewe), and Woulki.

The language is sometimes known as Makari, after one of the towns where it is spoken. Ngala further west (as described by Barth) once spoke a dialect similar to Makari, but it was moribund by the 1920s, the people having shifted to Kanuri.

Mpade has the following consonants.

Mpade has the following vowels.

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