Naba language

Naba
Naba
Native to	Chad
Region	Chad, Batha and Chari-Baguirmi prefectures
Ethnicity	Lisi
Native speakers	280,000 (2006)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Central Sudanic Bongo–Bagirmi Bagirmi Naba; ; ; ;
Dialects	Bilala; Kuka; Mendogo;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mne
Glottolog	naba1253

Naba is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by 300,000 people in Chad. Those who speak this language are called Lisi, a collective name for three closely associated ethnic groups, the Bilala, the and the , that represent the three dialects in which Naba is subdivided. They live mainly in the Batha Prefecture, but the Kuka are also in Chari-Baguirmi. Ethnologue estimates the lexical similarity among the three dialects to be no less than 99%.^[1] Arabic is often known as a second language.

References[]

^ ^a ^b Naba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

External links[]

A paper on an aspect of Bilala

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