Adamawa-Eastern

[ ad-uh-mah-wuh-ee-stern ]

/ ˌæd əˈmɑ wəˈi stərn /

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noun

a branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages, centered in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and the Central African Republic, including Sango and Zande.

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