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 northern Cameroon, north-western Central African Republic, southern Chad, and eastern Nigeria, spoken altogether by on ...
of
Chad
Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North Africa, North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to Chad–Libya border, the north, Sudan to Chad–Sudan border, the east, the Central Afric ...
. 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: 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 area north of
Sarh
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) as Fania locations. Lionnet also lists the village of Tili Nugar (Tilé Nougar).
References
{{Adamawa languages
Languages of Chad
Bua languages