Mararit language

Mararit
Native to	Sudan, Chad
Region	western sudan and Eastern Chad
Ethnicity	Mararit
Native speakers	42,000 (1993 census)^[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic? Astaboran? Taman Mararit
Dialects	Ibiri Abu Charib
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`mgb`
Glottolog	`mara1396`^[2]
Linguasphere	`05-PEA-aa`

The Mararit language is a Taman language spoken in eastern Chad. There are two dialects, Ibiri and Abou Charib, which Blench (2006) counts as distinct languages. The majority speak the Abou Charid.

Mararit people live in Argid Mararit, Abid Mararit, Wadah area, Donkey Kuma, Sani Kiro,in North Darfur State; in Silala area in South Darfur State and in Gienena provinvce in West Darfur State. The Talgai, Mirakawi, Wilkawi, and Tirgawi are tribes of the Mararit people .

References

↑ Mararit at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mararit". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

External links

Mararit (Ibiri) basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

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