Fania language
Language spoken in Chad
title: "Fania language" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["languages-of-chad", "bua-languages"] description: "Language spoken in Chad" topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fania_language" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Language spoken in Chad ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox language"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Fania |
| nativename | Kulaale |
| states | Chad |
| speakers | 1,100 |
| date | 1997 |
| ref | e18 |
| familycolor | Niger-Congo |
| fam2 | Atlantic–Congo |
| fam3 | Mbum–Day |
| fam4 | Bua |
| iso3 | fni |
| glotto | fani1244 |
| glottorefname | Fania |
| :: |
|name=Fania |nativename=Kulaale |states=Chad |speakers=1,100 |date=1997 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=Atlantic–Congo |fam3=Mbum–Day |fam4=Bua |iso3=fni |glotto=fani1244 |glottorefname=Fania Fania (Fagnan; also called Kulaale) is an Adamawa language of Chad. The northern and southern dialects are rather divergent.
Names
Fania is an exonym. Speakers refer to their own language as Kulaale, their people as Kulaaway, and one person as Kulaanu.
Names listed in Boyeldieu, et al. (2018:56):
- Autonym in Khalil Alio: Ɛma [ɛma] / pl. Ɛiwɛ [ɛɪwɛ]
- Autonym in Tilé Nougar: Kulaanum [kʊ̀láːnʊ́m] / pl. Kulaaway [kʊ̀láːwɐ̀y]
- Glossonym: Kulaale [kʊ̀láːlɛ̀] / pl. Kulaaru [kʊ̀láːɽʊ̀]
Villages
Ethnologue (22nd ed.) lists Karo, Malakonjo, Rim, Sengué, and Sisi villages (Mouraye area north of Sarh) as Fania locations. Lionnet also lists the village of Tili Nugar (Tilé Nougar).
References
References
- Lionnet, Florian. [http://www.princeton.edu/~flionnet/chad.html Chadic languages].
- Boyeldieu, Pascal, Raimund Kastenholz, Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer & Florian Lionnet (2018). The Bua Group languages (Chad, Adamawa 13): A comparative perspective. In Kramer & Kießling (eds.), ''Current approaches to Adamawa and Gur languages''. Cologne: 2018, 53-126.
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