Fali languages (Cameroon)
For other uses, see Fali language (disambiguation).
| Fali | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Cameroon |
| Region | North |
| Ethnicity | Fali |
Native speakers | unknown (35,000 cited 1982)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: fal – South Fali fll – North Fali |
| Glottolog |
adam1254[2] |
Fali is a language, or perhaps a pair of languages, of northern Cameroon. Included in Greenberg's Adamawa languages (as group G11), it was excluded from that family by Boyd (1989). Roger Blench suspects it may represent one of the earlier lineages to have branched off the Atlantic–Congo stock.
Varieties
According to Ethnologue 16, the two blanches of Fali are "different," but it is not clear how distinct they are. Blench apparently treats them as half a dozen languages in two branches. South Fali has 20,000 speakers, with several dialects. North Fali, with 16,000 speakers, also has several dialects; North Fali speakers were "rapidly" shifting to Adamawa Fulfulde by 1982.
- North Fali
- Dourbeye (Fali-Dourbeye)
- Bossum (Fali-Bossum)
- Bvəri (Fali du Peske-Bori)
- South Fali
- Kaang (Fali Kangou)
- Bele (Fali-Bele)
- Fali-Tinguélin
References
- ↑ South Fali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
North Fali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Adamawa-Fali". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Further reading
- Roger Blench, 2004. List of Adamawa languages (ms)
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