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The Maban languages are a small family of languages which have been included in the hypothetical Nilo-Saharan language family. Maban languages are spoken in eastern Chad, the Central African Republic and western Sudan ( Darfur ).
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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.
The Maban languages form a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Maba (also called Bura Mabang) is the largest Maban language in terms of number of speakers (more than 250,000). Other members of the group include Karanga, Kibet, Massalat, Masalit (Massalit), Marfa, and Runga.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Maba (also called Bura Mabang) is the largest Maban language in terms of number of speakers (more than 250,000). Other members of the group include Karanga, Kibet, Massalat, Masalit (Massalit), Marfa, and Runga. Maban also includes two languages known by the names of their first… Read More.
The Maban languages language in Eastern Chad, and Maba was the language of the Wadai kingdom, dating from the 16th century and described by ElTounsy (1851). It is still strongly maintained today and spoken in the home, broadcast on the radio and taught in primary schools (Weiss 2009).
- Roger Blench
The Maban languages form two large territorial blocks separated by the largely Arabic-speaking zone of Ouaddai. The great majority of the languages are spoken in Chad, but there are outliers in Sudan and Central
The Maban languages constitute one of the orphan groups of Nilo-Saharan; they are generally recognised as one of its branches, but their exact place remains to be determined. Data on Maban languages is extremely patchy; only one full-length grammar.
