Masalit language
| Masalit | |
|---|---|
| kana masara | |
| Native to | Sudan, Chad |
| Region | Dar Masalit (Darfur) |
| Ethnicity | Masalit people |
Native speakers | 410,000 (2006–2010)[1] |
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Nilo-Saharan?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: mls – Masalit mdg – Massalat |
| Glottolog |
nucl1440 (Nuclear Masalit)[2]mass1262 (Massalat)[3] |
Masalit (autonym kana masara) is a Maban language spoken by the Masalit people in western Darfur.
The Masalit language has two sociolects: "heavy" Masalit, with a complicated agglutinative grammar, spoken by higher-ranking people and in the countryside, and "light", spoken particularly in the home and in the market, with a somewhat simplified grammatical structure and many borrowings from Sudanese Arabic, the regional lingua franca and language of education.
The Massalat moved west into Chad, and have almost entirely switched to Arabic. The ethnic population was 30,000 as of the 1993 census, but only 10 speakers were reported in 1991.[1]
References
- 1 2 Masalit at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Massalat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nuclear Masalit". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Massalat". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
External links
Further Reading
- Abdo, Alsadig Adam (2013). "Contrastive Analysis Between Masalit and English Language" (PDF) (in Masalit and English). University of Khartoum, Sadan: unpublished. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- Edgar, J. (1990). Masalit stories. African Languages and Cultures, 3(2), 127-148.
- Jakobi, A. (1991). Au Masali Grammar: With Notes on Other Languages of Darfur and Wadai. Anthropos, 86(4-6), 599-601.
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