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Fania language
Fania
Kulaale
Native toChad
Native speakers
(1,100 cited 1997)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3fni
Glottologfani1244
ELPFania
PersonKulaanu
PeopleKulaaway
LanguageKulaale

Fania (Fagnan; also called Kulaale) is an Adamawa language of Chad. The northern and southern dialects are rather divergent.

Names

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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

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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

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  1. ^ Fania at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Lionnet, Florian. Chadic languages.
  3. ^ 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.
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