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The Maban languages are a small family of languages which have been included in the proposed Nilo-Saharan family. Maban languages are spoken in eastern Chad, the Central African Republic and western Sudan (Darfur).

Maban
Geographic
distribution
Chad, Sudan, Central African Republic
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
  • (unclassified)
    • Maban
Subdivisions
  • Mimi-N
  • Maban proper
Glottologmaba1274

Languages


The Maban branch includes the following languages:

The languages attested in two word lists labelled "Mimi", collected by Decorse (Mimi-D) and Nachtigal (Mimi-N), have also been classified as Maban, though this has been contested. Mimi-N appears to have been remotely related to Maban proper, while Mimi-D appears to have not been Maban at all, with the similarities due to language contact with locally dominant Maba.

Blench (2021) gives the following classification:[1]


External relationships


Based on morphological evidence such as tripartite number marking on nominals, Roger Blench (2021) suggests that closest relatives of the Maban languages may be the Eastern Sudanic languages, especially the Taman languages, which form a branch within Northern Eastern Sudanic. Maban also shares lexical similarities with the Fur languages, Saharan languages, and even Songhay languages, but generally has more lexical matches with Eastern Sudanic languages.[1]


Comparative vocabulary


Blench (2021) posits the following consonants for proto-Maban:[1]

(p) bt dk ɡ
s (z)ʃ(h)
mnɲŋ
wl rj

Vowels likely were ATR pairs, with at least *a *ɛ *e *i *ɔ *o *u and possibly *ɪ *ʊ, plus length.

There were likely two register tones plus the possibility of contour tones on long vowels.

Sample basic vocabulary for Maban languages:

Languageeyeearnosetoothtonguemouthbloodbonetreewatereatname
Proto-Maban[1]*kàSì-k*dúrmì*sati-k; *sàdí-k / *sadi-ɲi*delemi-k*fàrí-ŋ*ta-k / *ta-si*-aɲɔ-*mílí-ik
Maba[2]kàʃì-k/-ñikoi-kboiñsati-kdelmi-kkan-a/-tuàríikàñjí-ksoŋgo-kinji-añ-mílí-i/-síi
Masalit[2]kóo-gí/-síkwóyɛ̀dúrmìkácìŋgigélmèdìkánàfàríŋkónjìsíŋgì-iny-mirsi/-ldiŋ
Aiki[2]kàs-`k/-òkàsámùndúsàdíàdìyímyù-kpày/-ó; fáaijìŋg`r/jùŋgɔ̀rɔ̀rí-ktà-k-ñɔ̀-mèek-í/-ú
Kibet[2]kàs/-ukàsámùndùsàdíàd`lɛ́myù-kfal/-u; arinjekedi/njùkùdúri-kta-ñɔ̀-m lk-i/-udɔ
Mimi of Nachtigal[3]kalkuyihurziːkmilarikadʒisun (< Fur?)
Mimi of Decorse[4]dyofeɾfirɲainɲyosuengiɲyam

Numerals


Comparison of numerals in individual languages:[5]

ClassificationLanguage12345678910
MabaMabatɛ́ɡ, tɔ́ːmbàːr, mbíːr, mbùlkùŋàːl, káyáŋàssàːl, ássíːtùːr, túːrsit̀tàːl, síttíː < Arabic sittamɛ́ndrìːíyyáːɔ̀ddɔ̀yíɔ̀ttúɡ
MasalitMasalit (1)tíyóŋmbárákáaŋáástóórít̪ímàríàd̪áàyiùt̪úk
MasalitMasalit (2)tîyom (without noun), tîle (with n.)mbarakaŋasturitimâriayaadeyûtuk
MasalitMasalit (3)tyǒm (without noun), tíiilò (with n.)mbárákáaŋástúrítímàríàyáàdɛ́iùtúk
Runga-KibetKibetdoˈwaimbaʀkʰasaŋˈɡalʔaːtaltorʔiˈsalmɪndɪrˈsɪʔmbaːkʰlkʰaˈdɛijəjuˈtʊk̚
Runga-KibetRungakʰanˈdambakʰazaŋɡaattɛiturizɛimɪnˈdirsimbɑkadelikʰaddɛljtuk̚

See also



References


  1. Blench, Roger. 2021. The Maban languages and their place within Nilo-Saharan.
  2. Edgar, John T. 1991. Maba-group Lexicon. (Sprache und Oralität in Afrika: Frankfurter Studien zur Afrikanistik, 13.) Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.
  3. Lukas, Johannes & Otto Völckers. 1938. G. Nachtigal's Aufzeichnungen über die Sprache der Mimi in Wadai. Zeitschrift für Eingeborenensprachen 29. 145‒154.
  4. Gaudefroy-Demombynes, Maurice. 1907. Document sur les Langues de l'Oubangui-Chari. In Actes du XVIe Congrès International des Orientalistes, Alger, 1905, Part II, 172-330. Paris: Ernest Leroux.
  5. Chan, Eugene (2019). "The Nilo-Saharan Language Phylum". Numeral Systems of the World's Languages.

Further reading





На других языках


- [en] Maban languages

[fr] Langues mabanes

Les langues mabanes sont un groupe de langues nilo-sahariennes, parlées dans les régions situées à la frontière du Tchad et du Soudan.

[ru] Мабанские языки

Мабанские языки — семья языков Африки, распространённых на востоке Чада и в меньшей степени в Судане и Центральноафриканской Республике. На них говорят народ маба и родственные ему народы.



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