Naba language

Naba
Native to Chad
Region Chad, Batha and Chari-Baguirmi prefectures
Ethnicity Lisi
Native speakers
 280,000  (2006)[1]
Dialects
Bilala
Kuka
Mendogo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mne
Glottolog naba1253[2]

Naba is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by 300,000 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%.[1] Arabic is often known as a second language.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Naba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Naba". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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