Mbay language
| Mbay | |
|---|---|
| Sara Mbay | |
| Native to | Chad, Central African Republic |
Native speakers | unknown (90,000 cited 1990–1996)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
myb |
| Glottolog |
mbay1241[2] |
Mbay, or Sara Mbay, is a Bongo–Bagirmi language of Chad and the Central African Republic.
It is reported that Mbay does not have independent 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.[3]
References
- ↑ Mbay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mbay". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ 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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