Masalit language

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Masalit language

Masalit (autonym kana masara) is a Nilo-Saharan

Nilo-Saharan languages

The Nilo-Saharan languages are a hypothetical group of African languages spoken mainly in the upper parts of the Chari River and Nile rivers , including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of Nile meet....
language spoken by the Masalit

Masalit

The Masalit are a people of Darfur in western Sudan and Ouadda? Region in eastern Chad. They speak Masalit language, a Nilo-Saharan languages of the Maban languages....
ethnic group in western Darfur

Darfur

Darfur is a region in Sudan. An independent sultanate for several hundred years, it was incorporated into Sudan by History of the Anglo-Egyptian co-dominium....
. It has two sociolect

Sociolect

In linguistics, a sociolect is a variety of language associated with a particular social group. The term derives from the morphemes ?socio-,? meaning social and ?-lect,? meaning a variety of language....
s: "heavy" Masalit, with a complicated agglutinative grammar, spoken by higher-ranking people and in the countryside, and "light", spoken particularly in the home and in the market, with a somewhat simplified grammatical structure and many borrowings from Sudanese Arabic

Sudanese Arabic

Sudanese Arabic is the Varieties of Arabic of Arabic language spoken throughout northern Sudan. It has much borrowed vocabulary from the local languages ....
, the regional lingua franca and language of education.

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