Fur (language)
| Fur (Konjara) | ||
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Spoken in |
Sudan
and partly in: |
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| speaker | 501,800 | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | nowhere official language | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
ssa |
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| ISO 639-3 |
fvr |
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Fur (own name: bèle fòòr or fòòraŋ bèle , Arabic فوراوي; also Konjara after an earlier clan ) is the language of the Fur people in Darfur in the western part of Sudan .
There it is spoken by around 500,000 people (as of 1983) and by a further 1,800 people in Chad .
Together with the languages Amdang [amj] (also: Biltine ) and Mimi [miv] - which are possibly one and the same language - spoken in Chad , the Fur forms the branch of the Fur languages within the Nilosaharan language family .
phonetics
The consonantic phonemes:
- Bilabial: fbmw
- Dental / Alveolar: tdsnlr
- Palatal: j ñ y
- Velar: kg (h) ŋ
The vowels are: aeiou .
Interestingly, the metathesis is an extremely common and regular grammatical occurrence in the fur.
See also
literature
- AC Beaton: A Grammar of the Fur Language . Sudan Research Unit, Faculty of Arts, University of Khartoum 1968 (1937).
- Angelika Jakobi: A Fur Grammar . Helmut Buske Verlag, Hamburg 1989.
Web links
- For . Ethnologue, Languages of the World
- Fur (language family tree) . Ethnologue, Languages of the World