Më zëda nga njax
My back is aching
(Present marker) feeling my back

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Mandara montagnards

The term 'Mandara montagnards'is commonly applied to the indigenous peoples of the Mandara highlands, though it should be recognized that they are often closely related culturally to neighbors on the plains, for example the Wandala of Mora and the plains to the north, the Gisiga who live south of Maroua, and the Pabir and Bura who live some distance west of the Margi Dzirngu (literally Margi of the mountain). They all speak languages of the Central branch of the Chadic family of languages. This is not true of the Choa (or Shuwa) Arabs who speak a Semitic language of a amily distantly related to Chadic. The Kanuri speak a Saharan language of a different phylum, and teh Fulbe a West Atlantic language of a third language phylum. In fact the only indigenous phylum not represented in this area is Khoi-San, which includes the languages of the San (Bushmen) of southern Africa.

                        Ethnic groups in the Mandara mountains. By no means all are named; this is one of the most ethnically
                        differentiated (but not necessarily diverse) regions in the world.

Hide women dancing and young men drumming at their bull festival, Skala tla, the women in their dyed calabash hats.