Fur languages

The Fur 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 with around 750,000 speakers in 2004.
  • Amdang (also called Mimi) in eastern Chad with around 40,000 speakers in 2000.
Fur
For
Geographic
distribution
Darfur and Chad
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
  • Fur
Subdivisions
Glottologfura1235[1]
Map of the Fur Languages

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.


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