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Mofu-Gudur or South Mofu is an Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects are Dimeo Gudur Massagal Mokong Njeleng and Zidim. Speakers use an estimated 1500 conventionalized gestures. These are used in story-telling and reciting history but also in situations not conducive to speech; when children are born deaf or people go deaf later in life the family and has a system of communication available that will allow them to communicate with the entire community.