Northern Masalit

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Northern Masalit is a regional variety of the Masalit language spoken by Masalit communities in the northern part of their traditional territory in western Sudan and eastern Chad.

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Label Occurrences
Northern Masalit canonical 1

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language variety
regional dialect
associatedWith Darfur region NERFINISHED
Wadi Fira region NERFINISHED
country Chad
Sudan
ethnicGroup Masalit NERFINISHED
geographicDistribution border area between Sudan and Chad
hasDialectContinuumWith Southern Masalit NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticFeature lexical differences from Southern Masalit
morphological differences from Southern Masalit
phonological differences from Southern Masalit
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Southern Masalit NERFINISHED
isVarietyOf Masalit NERFINISHED
languageFamily Maban languages
Nilo-Saharan languages
partOf Masalit dialect cluster
regionType northern part of Masalit traditional territory
spokenBy Masalit people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Chad NERFINISHED
Sudan
spokenInRegion eastern Chad
western Sudan NERFINISHED
subdivisionOf Masalit language NERFINISHED
usedBy rural communities
village communities
usedFor everyday communication
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Masalit language hasDialect Northern Masalit