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Name: Mambai
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Mangbei; Mangbai; Manbai; Mambay; Mamgbay; Mamgbei; Mongbay; Mangbaï de Biparé; Momboi
Spoken in: Chad, Cameroon
Number of speakers: 8,000 in Cameroon (2002 SIL). Population total all countries: 10,000 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 2000 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 10000 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: mcs
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup: Tupuri-Mambai (tupm)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Severely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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