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Fania language
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| Fania | |
|---|---|
| Kulaale | |
| Native to | Chad |
Native speakers | (1,100 cited 1997)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | fni |
| Glottolog | fani1244 |
| ELP | Fania |
| Person | Kulaanu |
|---|---|
| People | Kulaaway |
| Language | Kulaale |
Fania (Fagnan; also called Kulaale) is an Adamawa language of Chad. The northern and southern dialects are rather divergent.
Names
[edit]Fania is an exonym. Speakers refer to their own language as Kulaale, their people as Kulaaway, and one person as Kulaanu.[2]
Names listed in Boyeldieu, et al. (2018:56):[3]
- Autonym in Khalil Alio: Ɛma [ɛma] / pl. Ɛiwɛ [ɛɪwɛ]
- Autonym in Tilé Nougar: Kulaanum [kʊ̀láːnʊ́m] / pl. Kulaaway [kʊ̀láːwɐ̀y]
- Glossonym: Kulaale [kʊ̀láːlɛ̀] / pl. Kulaaru [kʊ̀láːɽʊ̀]
Villages
[edit]Ethnologue (22nd ed.) lists Karo, Malakonjo, Rim, Sengué, and Sisi villages (Mouraye area north of Sarh) as Fania locations. Lionnet also lists the village of Tili Nugar (Tilé Nougar).
References
[edit]- ^ Fania at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Lionnet, Florian. Chadic languages.
- ^ Boyeldieu, Pascal, Raimund Kastenholz, Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer & Florian Lionnet (2018). The Bua Group languages (Chad, Adamawa 13): A comparative perspective. In Kramer & Kießling (eds.), Current approaches to Adamawa and Gur languages. Cologne: 2018, 53-126.