Marba
| Marba | |
|---|---|
| Marba / Azumeina | |
| Native to | Chad |
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Native speakers
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150,000 (2006) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | marb1239 |
Marba is an Afro-Asiatic language that is used by the Azumeina peoples of Chad () as their first language. It is also the name of one of these Azumeina people groups.
This article relates to the Marba language [mpg] spoken by the Azumeina peoples.
The Marba language is indigenous primarily to:
Alternate non-preferred spellings include Maraba. Historically the language has sometimes been called Azumeina. Banana, Bananna and Ho Ho were sometimes used during the time of the French administration but have fallen into disuse.
The Marba of this article is a different topic from Marfa [mvu] and Maba [mde] which are Nilo-Saharan languages spoken in the Ouaddaï and Wadi Fira regions of Chad.
Marba [mpg] is classified in the Masa languages () subgroup of the Chadic languages () branch of the Afro-Asiatic language () family.
The following people groups speak Marba and are therefore called Azumeina:
Each of these people groups comprises several clans. The name of a clan is often the same as the name of the clan’s home village or township as noted in the following tables. On the internet Kolon is sometimes misspelled Kulung.
Many Azumeina now live outside their traditional area. For example, there is a significant community of Marba-speaking people in N’Djaména and around Kouroup north of Koyom in the Mayo Boneye () department of Mayo-Kebbi Est ().
The following Musey (also spelt ) clans speak Marba but often as a subsequent language:
Spoken Marba is often mixed with some Hausa and Chadian Arabic words. However, geographical variations of Marba itself are barely significant enough to be called dialects if a dialect is defined as distinguished by its vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. Where a distinction can be made only in terms of pronunciation, the term accent may be preferred over dialect. There is little difference in the Marba spoken by the Marba and Kolon peoples. The differences in speech between the Marba and Kolon tribes on the one hand and the Leou tribe on the other hand are more related to pronunciation than to grammar or vocabulary. This difference affects mainly some vowels.
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