It is also the lingua franca of the entire department of Mayo-Sava, by ethnic groups of the northern Mandara Mountains.
[2] It is spoken in the plain north of Mora (in Kolofata district) by a mixture of Kanuri, Fula, and Arab populations.
To avoid breaking this constraint, a central vowel may be inserted in word-final position.
Wandala has the lexical categories of noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and predicator.
On verbs, suffixes have many functions, such as marking semantic and grammatical relations, directionality and point of view.
Suffixes on nouns mark plural number, genitive relation and pronominal possession.