The Adamawa languages are a group of languages scattered across the Adamawa Plateau in central Africa, in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad. They belong to the Adamawa-Ubangi subgroup of the Niger-Congo family. They are among the least studied groups in Africa, and include many endangered languages; by far the largest of the nearly one hundred small Adamawa languages is Mumuye , at 400,000 speakers. A couple of unclassified languages - notably Laal and Jalaa - are found along their fringes. They are divided into the following subgroups:

• Waja-Jen
  • Tula-Wiyaa (or Waja)
  • Bikwin-Jen (or Jen)
  • Baa (or, confusingly, Kwa)
  • Bəna-Mboi (or Yungur)
  • Longuda
• Leko-Nimbari
  • Mumuye-Yendang
  • Leko
  • Duru
  • Nimbari
• Mbum-Day
  • Mbum
  • Day
  • Bua
  • Kim
• Nyimwom (or Kam)
• Unclassified Adamawa languages

The Fali and Dakoid languages were removed by Boyd 1989.

External links

• List of Adamawa languages - Blench
• Tula-Wiyaa languages - Blench
• Leeko group - Blench
• The Perema (Wom) language of northeastern Nigeria: classification, phonology and noun morphology (PDF) by Roger M. Blench, 2000. Mallam Dendo, Cambridge.
• Adamawa languages - Ethnologue
• A rapid appraisal survey of Gbete (PDF) by Jason Diller & Kari Jordan-Diller, 2002. SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-050.
• A sociolinguistic survey of the Mambay language of Chad and Cameroon (PDF) by Cameron Hamm, 2002. SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-039.
• Rapid appraisal and lexicostatistical analysis surveys of Dama, Mono, Pam, Ndai and Oblo (PDF) by Michael & Charlene Ayotte, 2002. SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-048.
• Karang - SIL-Cameroon
• SIL-Cameroon bibliography
• Langue kim
• Langue tupuri
• Vocabulaires comparés des instruments aratoires dans le Nord-Cameroun, Tourneaux