Also known as Fur language
Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Sudan
Key facts
- Native to
- Sudan , Chad
- Region
- Darfur , Sila
- Ethnicity
- Fur
- Native speakers
- 790,000 (2004–2023)
- Language family
- Nilo-Saharan ? Fur Furs
- Writing system
- Latin
- Iso 639 3
- fvr
- Glottolog
- furr1244
- Linguasphere
- 05-CAA-aa
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Nilo-Saharan
- Country
- Chad
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- writing system
- Latin script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 746000
- indigenous to
- Darfur
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Encyclopedic overview
Linguistic map of the non-Arab peoples of Darfur, showing the extent of the Fur language in Sudan.
The Fur language or For; (Fur: Foor’íŋ belé’ŋ) is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Fur of Darfur in Western Sudan and Chad. It is part of a broader family of languages known as the Fur languages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.