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Masalit language

Masalit (autonym Masala/Masara; Arabic: ماساليت) is a Nilo-Saharan language of the Maban language group spoken by the Masalit people in West Darfur, Sudan and Ouaddaï Region, Chad.

Masalit

Sudan, Chad

West Darfur, South Darfur (Sudan), Ouaddaï, Sila (Chad)

Masalit

410,000 (2019–2022)[1]

Latin

Either:
mls – Masalit
mdg – Massalat

nucl1440  Nuclear Masalit
mass1262  Massalat

Massalat

Masalit, known as the Massalat, moved west into central-eastern Chad. Their ethnic population in Chad was 30,000 as of the 1993 census, but only 10 speakers of their language were reported in 1991.[2]

"Heavy" Masalit, spoken by higher-ranking people and those in the countryside, with a complicated grammar

agglutinative

"Light" Masalit, spoken particularly in the home and in the market, with a somewhat simplified grammatical structure and many borrowings from , the regional lingua franca and language of education.

Sudanese Arabic

The Masalit language has two sociolects:

Abdo, Alsadig Adam (November 2013). (PDF). Department of Linguistics. University of Khartoum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016.

"Contrastive analysis between Masalit and English language"

Edgar, John (January 1990). "Masalit stories". African Languages and Cultures. 3 (2). Taylor & Francis: 127–148. :10.1080/09544169008717716. JSTOR 1771718.

doi

Jakobi, Angelika (1991). "Edgar, John: A Masalit Grammar. With Notes on Other Languages of Darfur and Wadai. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1989. 121 pp., map, tab., fig. (Sprache und Oralität in Afrika, 3) Preis: DM 59-". Anthropos (in German). 86 (4–6). Nomos Verlag: 599–601.  40463695.

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