Mofu-Gudur language

Mofu-Gudur, or South Mofu, is a Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects are Dimeo, Gudur, Massagal, Mokong, Njeleng, and Zidim.

Mofu-Gudur
Native to	Cameroon
Region	Far North Province
Native speakers	90,000 (2008)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic South (c) Mofu-Gudur
Signed forms	Mofu-Gudur Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mif
Glottolog	mofu1248  Mofu-Gudur mofu1251  Mofu-Gudur Sign Language

Sign language

Speakers use an estimated 1,500 conventionalized gestures. These are used in story-telling and reciting history, but also in situations not conducive to speech; when children are born deaf, or people go deaf later in life, the members have a system of communication available that will allow them to communicate with the entire community.

Notes

1. Mofu-Gudur at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

References

• Daniel Barreteau. 1988. Description du mofu-gudur. Paris: Institut Français de Recherche Scientifique pour le Développement en Coopération. ISBN 2-7099-0841-7.
• L. Sorin-Barreteau, 1996, Le Langage Gestuel des Mofu-Gudur au Cameroun. PhD dissertation, University of Paris V-Rene' Descartes