Maba
Maba is a Maban language spoken in Chad, by about 296 thousand people.
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Maba (Maban, Mabang, or Bura Mabang) is a Nilo-Saharan language of the Maban branch spoken in Chad and Sudan. It is divided into several dialects, and serves as a local trade language. Maba is closely related to the Masalit language. Most speakers of Maba reside in Chad with 542,000 speakers as of 2019. In 2022 there were 28,000 speakers in Sudan where the language is known as Sulaihab.
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Words in Maba
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | kaN* | |
| name | miliz* | |
| eye | kapak* | |
| ear | ko5i* | |
| nose | bo5* | |
| tooth | satik* | |
| tongue | dimik* | |
| hand | kara* | |
| blood | ari* | |
| bone | ka5jik* | |
| skin | jilid* | |
| knee | tumok* | |
| breast | aNgun* | |
| liver | mu5ik* | |
| water | inji | |
| fire | wasik* | |
| sun | a5ik* | |
| star | menuE* | |
| stone | kodrok* | |
| mountain | kodok* | |
| tree | kuSak* | |
| leaf | ko5i* | |
| night | iSe* | |
| dog | 5uk* | |
| fish | ku5o* | |
| louse | meselek* | |
| one | tar* | |
| two | mbar* | |
| I | am* | |
| we | maN* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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