Nizaa language

Nizaa
Nizaa
Galim, Nyemnyem, Nyamnyam, Suga
Native to	Cameroon
Region	Adamawa Region
Native speakers	(10,000 cited 1985)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Northern Bantoid Mambiloid Nizaa; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sgi
Glottolog	suga1248
	Map of the Mambiloid languages of northern Cameroon, with the Nizaa language in yellow

Nizaa (Nizaa pronunciation: [nɪ˦zʌː˧˨]^[2]), also known as Galim, Nyemnyem, and Suga, is an endangered Mambiloid language spoken in the Adamawa Region of northern Cameroon. Most of the language's approximately speakers live in and around the village of Galim, in the department of Faro-et-Déo.

Nizaa has a complex phonetic inventory with 65 consonant phonemes as well as numerous level and contour tones; in terms of grammar, it preserves verbal morphology much more than is typical for the Mambiloid languages. Nizaa was first extensively studied and documented in the 1990s, by Norwegian linguists Rolf Theil Endresen [no] and Bjørghild Kjelsvik. The language is currently endangered, but the exact number of active speakers is unknown due to the last census of speakers taking place in 1985.

^ Nizaa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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[e18-1] Nizaa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[TheilEndresen-1991-2] Cite error: The named reference TheilEndresen-1991 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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