Noy language

Noy
Loo
Native to Chad
Native speakers
36 (1993 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 noy
Glottolog noyy1238[2]

Noy, or Loo, is a nearly extinct language of Chad. In 1993 it had a population of 36 speakers, who lived in the Moyen-Chari and Mandoul regions, between Sarh, Djoli, Bédaya, Koumra, and Koumogo villages. Speakers are shifting to Sar, the lingua franca of regional capital Sarh.[3]

Further reading

References

  1. Noy at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Noy". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Connell, Bruce (2008), "Endangered Languages in Central Africa", in Brenzinger, Matthias, Language Diversity Endangered, Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 163–178


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