Maba (Chad)

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Maba (Chad) is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken primarily by the Maba people in eastern Chad.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Maba (Chad) canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nilo-Saharan language
language
approximateNumberOfSpeakers hundreds of thousands
closelyRelatedTo Karanga (Maban) language
Kibet language
Masalit language
continent Africa
country Chad
ethnicGroup Maba people
glottocode maba1274
hasAlternativeName Maba
Ouaddaï
Wadai
hasDialect Maba of Kobé
Maba of Ouaddaï
Maba of Wadai
linked to: Maba of Ouaddaï
hasLinguisticFeature complex verb morphology
tone language
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Chadian Arabic
hasStatus regional language in Chad
isMajorLanguageOf Maba people
Ouaddaï Region
ISO639-3Code mde
languageBranch Maban languages
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan languages
languageOf Maba people
linguisticClassificationLevel Maban branch of Nilo-Saharan
macroArea Saharan Africa
neighboringLanguages Arabic (Chadian Arabic)
linked to: Chadian Arabic

Masalit
linked to: Masaleet

Runga
primaryLocation eastern Chad
primaryScriptUsage Latin-based orthography in Chad
region Ouaddaï Region
Wadi Fira Region
spokenIn Chad
eastern Chad
subclassOf Maban language
linked to: Maban languages
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
usedIn local administration in some areas of Ouaddaï
local trade in eastern Chad
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Maba language glottologName Maba (Chad)
Maba language hasAlternativeName Maba (Chad)