• Maba (Maban, Mabang, or Bura Mabang) is a Nilo-Saharan language of the Maban branch spoken in Chad and Sudan. It is divided into several dialects, and...
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    1993) Toupouri (90,785, RGPH, 1993) Bua languages: Bua, Niellim, Gula Iro, etc. (total < 30,000) Maban languages Maba (120,000, SIL 1991) Massalit (50,857...
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  • The Maba, also called Bargo or Wadai people, are a Sunni Muslim ethnic group found primarily in the mountains of Wadai region in eastern Chad and southern...
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  • an Austronesian language of Indonesia Maba language, a Nilo-Saharan language of Chad and Sudan Maba people, an ethnic group of Chad Maba Man, a prehistoric...
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  • with Maba itself, and the relationship was too distant for Mimi to be related specifically to Maba and not equally to the other Maban languages. The obvious...
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    not been Maban at all, with the similarities due to language contact with locally dominant Maba. Blench (2021) gives the following classification: Proto-Maban...
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    The people of Chad speak more than 100 languages and divide themselves into many ethnic groups. However, language and ethnicity are not the same. Moreover...
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    Masalit people (category Ethnic groups in Chad)
    Masalit language is most closely related to the Marfa, Maba and Karanga languages. It shares 45% of its vocabulary with Marfa, 42% with Maba, and 36%...
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    population of Chad has numerous ethnic groups. SIL Ethnologue reports more than 130 distinct languages spoken in Chad. The 14 million Chad people belong...
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    "Nilo-Saharan" constitutes ten distinct and separate language families: Eastern Sudanic, Central Sudanic – Kadu, Maba–Kunama, Komuz, Saharan, Songhai, Kuliak, Fur...
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