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Covers the "Biu + Mandara" or "Central Chadic" grouping, part of the "Chadic" affinity within the wider "Afro-Asiatic" or "Hamito-Semitic" intercontinental affinity.
Comprising 9 sets of languages (62 outer languages) spoken by communities in North Central Africa, in and around the Mandara highlands (whence the term "Mandaric").