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Fur language

The Fur language (or For; Fur: bèle fòòr or fòòraŋ bèle; Arabic: فوراوي, Fûrâwî; sometimes called Konjara by linguists, after a former ruling clan) is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Fur of Darfur in Western Sudan and Chad. It is part of a broader family of languages known as the Fur languages.

Fur

Sudan, Chad

Darfur, Sila

1.3 million Fur (2023)[1]

790,000 (2004–2023)[1]

Latin

fvr

furr1244

05-CAA-aa

Morphology[edit]

Plurals[edit]

Noun, and optionally adjective, plurals can be formed with -a (-ŋa after vowels):

Media in Fur language[edit]

Radio Dabanga – broadcasts daily news in the Fur language and in other languages local to Darfur.

Beaton, A.C. A Grammar of the Fur Language. Linguistic Monograph Series, No. 1. Khartoum: Sudan Research Unit, Faculty of Arts, University of Khartoum 1968 (1937).

Jakobi, Angelika. A Fur Grammar. Buske Verlag: Hamburg 1989.

Kutsch-Lojenga, Constance and Christine Waag, "The Sounds and Tones of Fur", in Occasional Papers in the Study of Sudanese Languages No. 9. Entebbe: SIL-Sudan 2004.

Noel, Georgianna. , University of Texas at Arlington, 2008.

An Examination of the Tone System of Fur and its Function in Grammar

Huffman, Steve. (PDF). www.worldgeodatasets.com. Archived from the original on July 5, 2017.

"Language Map of Sudan and South Sudan (pre-separation)"

Bariwarig Tooduo, "Participant Reference". University of Juba 2014