Mbay language
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| Mbay | |
|---|---|
| Sara Mbay | |
| Native to | Chad, Central African Republic |
Native speakers | 90,000 (1990–1996)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | myb |
Mbay, or Sara Mbay, is a Bongo–Bagirmi language of Chad and the Central African Republic.
It is reported that Mbay does not have personal pronouns. The meaning is largely carried out by subject, object, and possessive affixes attached to verbs, prepositions, and nouns. Other words, such as yá̰a̰ "thing", dèē "person", tàa "speech", and lòo "place" are used somewhat pronominally as something, somebody, something said, and somewhere.[2]
References
- ↑ Mbay reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ Keegan, John M. 1997. A Reference Grammar of Mbay. Munich: Lincom Europa. Cited in Bhat, D.N.S. 2004. Pronouns. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 26
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