Naba language
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| Naba | ||
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| Spoken in: | Chad | |
| Region: | Chad, Batha and Chari-Baguirmi prefectures | |
| Total speakers: | 232,000 (1993 census) | |
| Language family: | Nilo-Saharan Central Sudanic Western Central Sudanic Bongo-Baguirmi Sara-Baguirmi Baguirmi Naba |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | mne | |
| ISO 639-3: | mne | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Naba is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by 232,000 people in Chad. Those who speak this language are called Lisi, a collective name for three closely associated ethnic groups, the Bilala, the Kuka and the Medogo, that represent the three dialects in which Naba is subdivided. They live mainly in the Batha Prefecture, but the Kuka are also in Chari-Baguirmi. Ethnologue estimates the lexical similarity among the three dialects to be no less than 99%. Arabic is often known as a second language.
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