Mbághirmi

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Mbághirmi is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily in southern Chad by the Bagirmi people.

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Label Occurrences
Mbághirmi canonical 1

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Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Central Sudanic language
language
natural language
continent Africa
country Chad
ethnicGroup Bagirmi people NERFINISHED
family Central Sudanic NERFINISHED
glottocode bagi1244
hasAlternativeName Bagirmi NERFINISHED
Baguirmi NERFINISHED
Mbághirmi Bagirmi NERFINISHED
hasDialects "several local varieties"
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative features
tonal language
iso639-3 bmi
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan (proposed) NERFINISHED
languageStatus minority language in Chad
nativeSpeakers "tens of thousands"
neighboringLanguages Arabic (Chadian Arabic) NERFINISHED
Sara languages
primaryWordOrder SVO
region southern Chad
riskStatus vulnerable
spokenIn Chad NERFINISHED
southern Chad
subclassOf Bongo–Bagirmi language NERFINISHED
usedBy Bagirmi people NERFINISHED
usedInDomain everyday communication
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Bagirmi language alternateName Mbághirmi