Maban branch of Nilo-Saharan

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The Maban branch of Nilo-Saharan is a subgroup of the Nilo-Saharan language family spoken mainly in eastern Chad and western Sudan, comprising several related languages of the Maban people.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Maban languages
language family branch
associatedWithEthnicGroup Maban people NERFINISHED
classificationDebatedBy historical linguists
geographicRegion Darfur NERFINISHED
Ouaddaï region NERFINISHED
Sahel NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticFeature complex verb morphology
noun class or gender-like distinctions
tone languages
hasMajorLanguage Maba language NERFINISHED
hasMemberLanguage Karanga language NERFINISHED
Kibet language NERFINISHED
Maba language
Masalit language NERFINISHED
Runga language NERFINISHED
Surbakhal language NERFINISHED
hasWritingSystem Arabic script (for some languages)
Latin script (for some languages)
languageFamilyStatus proposed
spokenIn Chad NERFINISHED
Sudan
eastern Chad
western Sudan NERFINISHED
studiedInDiscipline African linguistics
subfamilyOf Nilo-Saharan language family NERFINISHED
usedBy Maban ethnic groups of Chad NERFINISHED
Maban ethnic groups of Sudan
usedFor oral communication

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Karanga language hasLinguisticClassification Maban branch of Nilo-Saharan