mandara

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a Chadic language spoken in the Mandara mountains in Cameroon; has only two vowels

He is from Mandara, and was kidnapped by the Tibboos. — Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846, James Richardson
See how a lion, when intoxicated with anger, was overcome by a rabbit._ Upon the mountain Mandara there lived a lion, whose name was Durganta (hard to go near), who was very exact in complying with the ordinance for animal sacrifices. — Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes, Charles Madison Curry
To this end he stationed himself at the bottom of the ocean, and allowed the point of the great mountain Mandara to be placed upon his back, which served as a hard axis, whereon the gods and demons, with the serpent Vásuki twisted round the mountain for a rope, churned the waters for the recovery of the amrita or nectar, and fourteen other sacred things. — The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse, Valmiki

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