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Marfa language

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Maban language spoken in Chad Not to be confused with Marba language.
Marfa
Marba
Native toChad
RegionOuaddaï
EthnicityMarfa people
Native speakers(5,000 cited 1999)
Language familyNilo-Saharan?
Language codes
ISO 639-3mvu
Glottologmarf1238

Marfa is a Maban language spoken in Chad. It is not a dialect of the Masalit language.

Further reading

  • Edgar, John T. (1991). Maba-group Lexicon. Sprache und Oralität in Afrika: Frankfurter Studien zur Afrikanistik. Vol. 13. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer. ISBN 9783496005940. OCLC 26275201.
  • Lebeuf, Annie M.-D (1959). Les populations du Tchad (Nord du 10e parallèle). Ethnographic survey of Africa, Western Africa, French series. Vol. 8. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France for the International African Institute. OCLC 631472.
  • Le Rouvreur, Albert (1962). Sahéliens et Sahariens du Tchad. L'Homme d'Outre-Mer: Nouvelle Série. Vol. 5. Paris: Berger-Levrault. OCLC 741527982.
  • Weiss, Doris; Faris, David (1994). Une étude lexicostatistique et sociolinguistique des langues maba, marfa, karanga, et kashmere du Ouaddaï. N'Djaména: SIL.

References

  1. ^ Marfa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
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