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Fali languages (Cameroon)

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For other uses, see Fali language (disambiguation).
Fali
Native toCameroon
RegionNorth
EthnicityFali
Native speakers
(35,000 cited 1982)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
fal – South Fali
fll – North Fali
Glottologadam1254

Fali is a language, or perhaps a pair of languages, of northern Cameroon. Included in Greenberg's Adamawa languages (as group G11), it was excluded from that family by Boyd (1989). Roger Blench suspects it may represent one of the earlier lineages to have branched off the Atlantic–Congo stock.

Varieties

According to Ethnologue 16, the two blanches of Fali are "different," but it is not clear how distinct they are. Blench apparently treats them as half a dozen languages in two branches. South Fali has 20,000 speakers, with several dialects. North Fali, with 16,000 speakers, also has several dialects; North Fali speakers were "rapidly" shifting to Adamawa Fulfulde by 1982.

North Fali
Dourbeye (Fali-Dourbeye)
Bossum (Fali-Bossum)
Bvəri (Fali du Peske-Bori)
South Fali
Kaang (Fali Kangou)
Bele (Fali-Bele)
Fali-Tinguélin

References

  1. ^ South Fali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    North Fali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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