Maba (language)
Maba | ||
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Spoken in |
Chad | |
speaker | approx. 250,000 (as of 1999) | |
Linguistic classification |
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The Maba (own name: bora / bura mabaŋ ) belongs to the subgroup of the Maba languages named after it within the East Sudanese branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family . It is spoken by around 250,000 people in eastern Chad ( Wadai and Biltine).
The members of the Maba people are mostly followers of Islam .
Another important language in the Maba group is the masalit .
The structure of the Maba languages
- Maba languages
- Mabang group
- Kendeje (approx. 2,000)
- Maba group
- Maba (approx. 250,000)
- Marfa (approx. 5,000-10,000)
- Masalit group
- Massalat (approx. 10, as of 1991)
- Masalite (approx. 240,000)
- Surbakhal (approx. 8,000)
- Runga Kibet group
- Kibet (approx.20,000)
- Runga (also: Aiki; approx.20,000)
- Karanga (approx. 10,000)
- Mabang group
Except for the Masalit, which is mainly localized in Sudan , all these languages are spoken in Chad (partly also in the Central African Republic ).
Comparative vocabulary
Word meaning | Maba | Masalite | Word meaning | Maba | Masalite |
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woman | must | muco | water | ʌnji | sa |
head | kiji | kuju | Fire | wʌsik | waasi |
eye | kʌsik | kɔɔgi | one | tek | tiilo |
ear | kɔye | kɔyee | two | mbaar | mbʌra |
nose | bɔɲ | durmi (h) | three | kɔŋaal | kaaŋ |
mouth | kʌna | kanah | four | asaal | aas |
tooth | satik | kʌcine | five | tuur | toor |
hand | kara | kɔrɔ | ten | atuk | uttuk |
foot | Yes | dowi |
annotation
Maba and the Maban languages are not to be confused with the West Nilotic language Mabaan .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to Ethnologue, s. Web links
- ↑ after Paul Doornbos u. M. Lionel Bender: Languages of Wadai-Darfur . In: M. Lionel Bender (Ed.): Nilo-Saharan Language Studies . Michigan State University, 1983, pp. 43-79.
literature
- Ali Abdoullay Dahab et al .: Lexique maba-français . Association SIL Projet maba. N'Djaména (Tchad) 2003.
- John T. Edgar: A Masalit grammar: with notes on other languages of Darfur and Wadai . Reimer, Berlin 1989.
- John T. Edgar: Maba-group lexicon . Reimer, Berlin 1991.
- Pierre Nougayrol: La langue des Aiki dits Rounga: Tchad, République centrafricaine. Esquisse descriptive et lexique . Geuthner, Paris. 1990.
- Georges Trenga: Le Bura-Mabang du Ouadaï. Notes for serving à l'étude de la langue maba . Institut d'Ethnologie, Paris 1947. (written in the years 1905–1907)