Maba language

Not to be confused with Maba language (Indonesia).
Maba
Native to Chad
Region Ouaddaï, Wadi Fira
Ethnicity Maba
Native speakers
300,000  (2006)[1]
Nilo-Saharan?
Dialects
Kodoi
etc.
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mde
Glottolog maba1277[2]

Maba (Maban, Mabang) is a Maban language of Chad, where it is a local trade language. There are several dialects.

References

  1. Maba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Maba (Chad)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.