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Fur languages

The Fur, Furan or For languages constitute a small, closely related family, which is a proposed member of the Nilo-Saharan family. Its members are:Fur in western Sudan and eastern Chad with around 745,600 speakers in 2004. Amdang in eastern Chad with around 41,100 speakers in 2000.

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Fur
For, Furan
Geographic
distribution		Sudan and Chad
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
  • Fur
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologfura1235
Map of the Fur Languages

The Fur,1 Furan2 or For languages constitute a small, closely related family, which is a proposed member of the Nilo-Saharan family. Its members are:

  • Fur in western Sudan and eastern Chad with around 745,600 speakers in 2004.
  • Amdang (also called Mimi) in eastern Chad with around 41,100 speakers in 2000.
References

References

  1. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2024). "Fur". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Twenty-seventh edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Furan languages". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.