Marfa language

Not to be confused with Marba language.
Marfa
Marba
Native to Chad
Region Ouaddaï
Ethnicity Marfa
Native speakers
5,000 (1999)[1]
Nilo-Saharan?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mvu
Glottolog marf1238[2]

Marfa is a Maban language spoken in Chad. It is closely related to the Masalit language.[3]

References

  1. Marfa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Marfa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. "Masalit language". Ethnologue. Retrieved 22 September 2016.


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