Mawa language (Chad)

Not to be confused with Mawa language (Nigeria).
Mawa
Native to Chad
Region central
Native speakers
 6,600  (2000)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mcw
Glottolog mawa1270[3]

Mawa (also known as Mahwa, Mahoua) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad.

Notes

  1. ↑ Mawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
  3. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mawa (Chad)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

References

Hutchinson, Noelle, and Eric Johnson. 2006. A sociolinguistic survey of the Ubi language of Chad. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2006-002. Dallas: SIL International. Online. URL: http://sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2006-002.

Jungraithmayr, Herrmann. 1981b. Über die Mawa (Guera, Tschad) – Ethnographische und linguistische Notizen. In: I. Hofmann (ed.), Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von P. Anton Vorbichler, 47–70.

Roberts, James. 2009. Palatalization and Labialization in Mawa (Eastern Chadic). In: Rothmaler, Eva (ed.), Topics in Chadic Linguistics V, 129–140. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.

Roberts, James. 2013. The tone system of Mawa. In: Henry Tourneux (ed.), Topics in Chadic Linguistics VII, Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.