Wandala is a member of the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. It is spoken by about 44,000 people particularly in and around the towns of Mora and Kolofata and in the department of Mayo-Sava in the north of the Far North Region of Cameroon, and also in the towns of Bama, Gwoza and Konduga in the south of Borno State in the northeast of Nigeria.
Wandala is also known as Mandara or Mura'. Dialects include Mura and Malgwa. A way to write Wandala with the Latin alphabet was proposed in 1981, and a Wandala translation of the Bible was published in 1999. It has also been written with the Arabic script.
Download an alphabet chart for Wandala (Excel)
Tsáttsé égdze a gyáále ám ekse, zhera áá ra Núram; má ta vanté zhélé a ra kéní ba wayaa ka. Áí, tsáttsé zlaɓe ádalíé wá, égdze a dawale wá zhera áá ra Nááli; ŋáné kéní, má ta vanté múksé a ra kéní wayaa ka, sáí á kátá ba Núram, á bíná. Áí, vacíá áte úmele, emnde áá tara Núram, ta naba eksananté ge sléksé á ba án ndzeɗa.
Source: A proposed writing system for the Mandara language
Information about Wandala | Tower of Babel
Information about Wandala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandala_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandala
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioma_wandala
https://www.academia.edu/112345773/A_Grammar_of_Wandala
http://www.language-archives.org/language/mfi
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/mfi
https://www.webonary.org/wandala/overview/introduction/
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