Marfa language

Marfa
Marfa
Marba
Native to	Chad
Region	Ouaddaï
Ethnicity	Marfa people
Native speakers	(5,000 cited 1999)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Maban Mabang Marfa; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mvu
Glottolog	marf1238

Last updated January 02, 2026

Marfa is a Maban language spoken in Chad. It is not a dialect of the Masalit language.^[1]

Edgar, John T. (1991). Maba-group Lexicon. Sprache und Oralität in Afrika: Frankfurter Studien zur Afrikanistik. Vol. 13. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer. ISBN 9783496005940. OCLC 26275201.
Lebeuf, Annie M.-D (1959). Les populations du Tchad (Nord du 10e parallèle). Ethnographic survey of Africa, Western Africa, French series. Vol. 8. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France for the International African Institute. OCLC 631472.
Le Rouvreur, Albert (1962). Sahéliens et Sahariens du Tchad. L'Homme d'Outre-Mer: Nouvelle Série. Vol. 5. Paris: Berger-Levrault. OCLC 741527982.
Weiss, Doris; Faris, David (1994). Une étude lexicostatistique et sociolinguistique des langues maba, marfa, karanga, et kashmere du Ouaddaï. N'Djaména: SIL.

References

1 2 Marfa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

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[e25-1] 1 2 Marfa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

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Marfa language

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