Maban languages — Infobox Language family name=Maban region=Chad, CAR, Sudan familycolor=Nilo SaharanThe Maban languages are a group of Nilo Saharan languages spoken in Chad, the Central African Republic, and Sudan. This group includes the following… … Wikipedia
Languages of Chad — Chad has two official languages, French and literary Arabic, and over 120 indigenous languages. A vernacular version of Arabic, Chadian Arabic, is the lingua franca. Afro Asiatic languages *Chadic languages **Boudouma (51,600, RGPH 1993) **Kéra… … Wikipedia
Nilo-Saharan languages — Group of perhaps 115 African languages spoken by more than 27 million people from Mali to Ethiopia and from southernmost Egypt to Tanzania. The concept of Nilo Saharan as a single stock combining a number of earlier groupings was introduced in… … Universalium
List of African languages — This is a list of African languages by classification.ClassificationAfro Asiatic languages*Berber languages **Eastern Berber languages ***Awjila Sokna languages ****Awjilah language ****Sawknah language ***Siwi language **Northern Berber… … Wikipedia
Songhay languages — Songhay Songai Geographic distribution: middle Niger River (Mali, Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso, Nigeria); scattered oases (Niger, Mali, Algeria) Linguistic classification: Nilo Saharan? … Wikipedia
Nilo-Saharan languages — Nilo Saharan Geographic distribution: Central and East Africa Linguistic classification: One of the world s primary language families Subdivisions: Eastern Sudanic Central Sudanic ? Kadu Maban … Wikipedia
Luo languages — The Nilo Saharan Luo languages comprise about 15 languages spoken in an area ranging from Southern Sudan via Uganda to Southern Kenya, with Dholuo extending into Northern Tanzania and Alur into the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They form one… … Wikipedia
The Languages of Africa — is a 1963 book of essays by Joseph Greenberg, in which he sets forth a genetic classification of African languages that, with some changes, continues to be the most commonly used one today. It is an expanded and extensively revised version of his … Wikipedia
Designations and classification of the Nilo-Saharan languages — ▪ Table Designations and classification of the Nilo Saharan languages former classification (1963) current classification 1. Songhai 1. Songhai 2. Saharan 2. Saharan 3. Maba 3. Maban 4. Fur 4. Fur 5. Chari Nile 5. Eastern Sudanic Eastern… … Universalium
Mimi of Decorse — Mimi D Mimi of Decorse Mimi of Gaudefroy Demombynes Spoken in Chad Native speakers ? (attested ca. 1900) Language family Nilo Saharan? … Wikipedia
