Marfa language explained
Marfa language should not be confused with Marba language.
| Marfa |
| Nativename: | Marba |
| States: | Chad |
| Region: | Ouaddaï |
| Ethnicity: | Marfa people |
| Speakers: | 5,000 |
| Date: | 1999 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Nilo-Saharan |
| Fam2: | Maban |
| Fam3: | Mabang |
| Iso3: | mvu |
| Glotto: | marf1238 |
| Glottorefname: | Marfa |
Marfa is a Maban language spoken in Chad. It is not a dialect of the Masalit language.
Further reading
- Book: Edgar, John T. . 1991 . Maba-group Lexicon . Sprache und Oralität in Afrika: Frankfurter Studien zur Afrikanistik . 13 . Berlin . Dietrich Reimer . 9783496005940 . 26275201.
- Book: Lebeuf, Annie M.-D . 1959 . Les populations du Tchad (Nord du 10e parallèle) . Ethnographic survey of Africa, Western Africa, French series . 8 . Paris . Presses Universitaires de France for the International African Institute . 631472.
- Book: Le Rouvreur, Albert . 1962 . Sahéliens et Sahariens du Tchad . L'Homme d'Outre-Mer: Nouvelle Série . 5 . Paris . Berger-Levrault . 741527982.
- Book: Weiss . Doris . David . Faris . 1994 . Une étude lexicostatistique et sociolinguistique des langues maba, marfa, karanga, et kashmere du Ouaddaï . N'Djaména . SIL.
