Fania (Fagnan; also called Kulaale) is an
Adamawa language
The Adamawa languages are a putative family of 80–90 languages scattered across the Adamawa Plateau in central Africa, in Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Chad, spoken altogether by only one and a half million people (as of ...
of
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Repub ...
. 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''.
[Lionnet, Florian]
Chadic languages
Names listed in Boyeldieu, et al. (2018:56):
[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.]
*Autonym in
Khalil Alio
Khalil, Khelil, or Khaleel may refer to:
People
* Khalil (Pashtun tribe)
* Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931), Lebanese-American writer, poet, visual artist, and Lebanese nationalist
* Khalil (scholar), 19th century Islamic scholar in the Emirate of Har ...
: Ɛma
�ma/ pl. Ɛiwɛ
�ɪwɛ*Autonym in
Tilé Nougar: Kulaanum
ʊ̀láːnʊ́m/ pl. Kulaaway
ʊ̀láːwɐ̀y*Glossonym: Kulaale
ʊ̀láːlɛ̀/ pl. Kulaaru
ʊ̀láːɽʊ̀
Villages
''Ethnologue'' (22nd ed.) lists Karo, Malakonjo, Rim, Sengué, and Sisi villages (
Mouraye
Mouraye is a sub-prefecture of Salamat Region in Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the ...
area north of
Sarh) as Fania locations. Lionnet also lists the village of Tili Nugar (Tilé Nougar).
References
{{Adamawa languages
Languages of Chad
Bua languages