Social:Fur languages

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Short description: Small language family of Sudan and Chad
Fur
For, Furan
Geographic
distribution
Sudan and Chad
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
  • Fur
Subdivisions
  • Fur
  • Amdang
Glottologfura1235[1]
Map of the Fur Languages

The Fur,[2] Furan[3] or For languages constitute a small, closely related family, which is a proposed member of the Nilo-Saharan family. Its members are:

  • Fur in western Sudan and eastern Chad with around 745,600 speakers in 2004.
  • Amdang (also called Mimi) in eastern Chad with around 41,100 speakers in 2000.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Furan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/fura1235. 
  2. Template:Ethnologue 27 subgroup
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Furan languages". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/fura1235. 

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