Fur languages
| Fur | |
|---|---|
| For | |
| Geographic distribution: | Darfur and Chad |
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| Glottolog: | fura1235[1] |
The Fur or For languages constitute a small, closely related family which are a proposed member of the Nilo-Saharan family. Fur in western Sudan had 500,000 speakers in 1983 (before the Darfur crisis), and Amdang (also called Mimi) in eastern Chad had 5,000 speakers.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Furan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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