Fur

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Fur is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken primarily by the Fur people of western Sudan’s Darfur region.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Fur language 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nilo-Saharan language
language
autonym Fur NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Amdang NERFINISHED
country Sudan
ethnicGroupOfSpeakers Fur people NERFINISHED
geographicDistribution Jebel Marra region NERFINISHED
central Darfur NERFINISHED
glottocode furr1245
hasAlternativeName Foor NERFINISHED
For
hasContactWithLanguage Arabic NERFINISHED
Masalit NERFINISHED
Zaghawa NERFINISHED
hasDialects eastern Fur NERFINISHED
southern Fur NERFINISHED
western Fur NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
tonal language
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature case marking on nouns
verbal aspect marking
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant length contrast
vowel length contrast
hasSociolinguisticFeature used as an identity marker of the Fur people
influencedBy Arabic
isEndangeredStatus vulnerable
isMinorityLanguageIn Sudan NERFINISHED
iso639-3Code fvr
isSpokenByApproximateNumberOfPeople hundreds of thousands
isSubjectOf descriptive grammars
phonological studies
isUsedFor local trade
oral communication
traditional storytelling
languageFamily Fur–Amdang NERFINISHED
Nilo-Saharan NERFINISHED
primaryWordOrder SOV
region Darfur NERFINISHED
spokenBy Muslim communities in Darfur
spokenIn Darfur NERFINISHED
Sudan
western Sudan NERFINISHED
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (11)

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

Kungara hasEndonym Fur
Amdang language hasMajorContactLanguage Fur
this entity surface form: Fur language
Fur-Amdang hasSubgroup Fur
Furawi languageFamily Fur
Kunjara languageFamily Fur