Vere language

Vere
Mom Jango
Region northern Nigeria and Cameroon
Native speakers
110,000 (2000)[1]
Dialects
  • Mom Jango
  • Momi
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 NigerianCameroonian border.

Dialects are Mom Jango and Momi AKA Ziri. These are divergent enough they probably constitute distinct languages.

References

  1. Vere at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mom Jango". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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