Niellim

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Niellim ( LWAA: )

Spoken in

Southwest Chad
speaker 5,000
Linguistic
classification

Niger-Congo

Language codes
ISO 639-3

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Area where the Niellim is spoken

Niellim (autonym lwaà:) is a Bua language that is spoken by around 5,000 people (as of 1993) along the Shari River in southern Chad .

It is mainly spoken in two areas: in the traditional homeland between 9 ° 30 'and 9 ° 50' N, corresponding to the former chiefdoms Pra, Niellim and Niou and further north around the city of Sarh (where many to most speakers have migrated ).

Niellim borders on several languages ​​of various language families - especially Sara , Ndam and Laal - and is influenced by the local lingua franca , Chadian-Arabic , which in turn has displaced the former lingua franca , Bagirmi . But the Niellim also influenced the Laal. It is notably homogeneous. As a small minority group in Chad , speakers usually have to learn other languages, especially French and Standard Arabic . Some also speak Baguirmi, Sara and Bua as a second language .

literature

  • Pascal Boyeldieu, La langue lua ("niellim") (Groupe Boua - Moyen-Chari, Tchad) Phonology - Morphology - Dérivation verbale . Descriptions des langues et monographes ethnologuistiques, 1. Cambridge University Press & Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme for SELAF. Paris 1985. ISBN 0-521-27069-3 (CUP). (A source for this article.)
  • P. Boyeldieu, "Esquisse phonologique du lua (" niellim ") de Niou (Moyen-Chari)", in Jean-Paul Caprile (ed.), Etudes phonologiques tchadiennes , Paris: SELAF 1977.
  • P. Boyeldieu and C. Seignobos, "Contribution à l'étude du pays niellim (Moyen-Chari - Tchad)", L'homme et le milieu, Aspects du développement au Tchad , Series: Lettres, Langues vivantes et Sciences humaines, no . 3, 1975, pp. 67-98. Includes an 80-word comparative list for Niellim and three Tunia varieties, with some remarks on regular correspondences
  • P. Boyeldieu & C. Seignobos, Contribution à l'étude du pays niellim , Université du Tchad / INTSH, N'djamena, 1974. Includes word lists for Kwa Tchini (Niellim dialect) and Kwa Perim (Tunia dialect).
  • M. Gaudefroy-Demombynes, Documents sur les langues de l'Oubangui-Chari , Paris, 1907. Includes (pp. 107–122) a 200-word comparative list of Bua, Niellim, Fanian, and Tunia, with a brief grammar and some phrases collected by Decorse.
  • J. Lukas, Zentralalsudanisches Studien , Hamburg, Friedrichsen, de Gruyter & Cie, 1937. Gives the wordlists of Nachtigal, zu Mecklenburg, Barth, and Gaudefroy-Demombynes for Bua (~ 400 words), Niellim (~ 200 words), and Koke (~ 100 words).
  • P. Palayer, "Notes sur les Noy du Moyen-Chari (Tchad)", Les langues du groupe Boua , N'djamena, INSH, "Etudes et documents tchadiens", Série C (Linguistique), no. 2, pp. 196-219. Elements of Noy, plus a 50-word comparative list of Noy, Niellim (2 dialects), Tunia, Iro Gula.

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