Maba language

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The Maba language is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken primarily by the Maba people in eastern Chad and neighboring regions.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Maba language canonical 4

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Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afro-Asiatic language
language
branch Maban languages
continent Africa
country Chad
ethnicGroup Maba people
family Afroasiatic languages
surface form: Afro-Asiatic
glottologCode maba1274
glottologName Maba (Chad)
hasAlternativeName Bura
surface form: Bura Mabang

Maba (Chad)
Mabang
hasGeneticRelation Karanga language
surface form: Karanga language (Maban)

Kenga language
surface form: Kibet language

Masalit language
Runga language
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
hasMorphologicalFeature suffixal morphology
hasNeighborLanguage Arabic
Daju languages
Zaghawa language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
hasSyntacticFeature prepositional phrases
isEndangeredStatus vulnerable
isSpokenAs native language
isSubjectOf Maban language documentation
comparative Afro-Asiatic studies
isVernacularOf Maba people
languageCodeISO639-3 mde
linguisticTypology Afro-Asiatic, Maban
macroArea Saharan Africa
region Ouaddaï Region
surface form: Ouaddaï region

Sahel
spokenBy Maba people
spokenIn Chad
Darfur region
Sudan
eastern Chad
subfamily Nilo-Saharan–influenced Afro-Asiatic language
usedIn local trade communication in eastern Chad
traditional oral literature of the Maba people
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (4)

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

Maban languages hasMember Maba language
Maban languages hasNotableLanguage Maba language
Masalit language neighboringLanguage Maba language