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Fur
For
Geographic
distribution
Sudan and Chad
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
  • Fur
Subdivisions
  • Fur
  • Amdang
Glottologfura1235
Map of the Fur Languages

The Fur or For languages constitute a small, closely related family, which is a proposed member of the Nilo-Saharan family. Its members are:

  • Fur in western Sudan and eastern Chad with around 745,600 speakers in 2004.
  • Amdang (also called Mimi) in eastern Chad with around 41,100 speakers in 2000.

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Fur languages

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The Fur or For languages constitute a small, closely related family, which is a proposed member of the Nilo-Saharan family. Its members are: Fur in western...

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Fur language

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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. The consonantal...

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Fur people

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are the largest ethnic group. They speak the Fur language, which belongs to the Nilo-Saharan family. The Fur are the largest ethnic group in the Darfur...

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Fur

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Fur is a thick growth of hair that covers the skin of almost all mammals. It consists of a combination of oily guard hair on top and thick underfur beneath...

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List of language families

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language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...

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Sable

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The name "sable" originates from Slavic languages and entered Western European languages through the medieval fur trade. Sables are small, omnivorous mammals...

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Languages of Chad

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languages, Arabic and French, and over 120 indigenous languages. A vernacular version of Arabic, Chadian Arabic, is a lingua franca and the language of...

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Fur clothing

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Fur clothing is clothing made from the preserved skins of mammals. Fur is one of the oldest forms of clothing and is thought to have been widely used by...

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Amdang language

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autonym: sìmí amdangtí) is a language closely related to Fur, which together constitute a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. It is mainly spoken...

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Fur trade

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The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur. Since the establishment of a world fur market in the early modern...

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Arctocephalus forsteri

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Australasian fur seal, South Australian fur seal, New Zealand fur seal, Antipodean fur seal, or long-nosed fur seal) is a species of fur seal found mainly...

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Furrer

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Furrer is a German language topographic surname of Swiss origin, which means "cleft in the ground", derived from the Swiss word furre. Notable people...

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Darfur

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Darfur (/dɑːrˈfʊər/ dar-FOOR; Arabic: دار فور, romanized: Dār Fūr, lit. 'Realm of the Fur') is a region of western Sudan. Dār is an Arabic word meaning...

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Insular Celtic languages

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Celtic languages are the group of Celtic languages spoken in Brittany, Great Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man. All surviving Celtic languages are in...

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Maban languages

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with the Fur languages, Saharan languages, and even Songhay languages, but generally has more lexical matches with Eastern Sudanic languages. Lexical...

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Sorbian languages

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Indo-European languages and are therefore closely related to the other two West Slavic subgroups: Lechitic and Czech–Slovak. Historically, the languages have also...

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Furness

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Furness (/ˈfɜːrnɪs, fɜːrˈnɛs/ FUR-niss, fur-NESS) is a peninsula and region of Cumbria, England. Together with the Cartmel Peninsula it forms North Lonsdale...

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North American fur trade

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The North American fur trade is the (typically) historical commercial trade of furs and other goods in North America, predominantly in the eastern provinces...

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West Germanic languages

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The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the...

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Fur farming

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Fur farming is the practice of breeding or raising certain types of animals for their fur. Most of the world's farmed fur is produced by European farmers...

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Languages of Switzerland

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national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian, and Romansh. German, French, and Italian maintain equal status as official languages at the...

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Shapka

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Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Macedonian languages) means a fur cap or a mountain peak in several Slavic languages. Russian fur hat, also known as ushanka Kęstutis...

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Celtic languages

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Celtic languages (/ˈkɛltɪk/ KEL-tik) are a group of related languages descended from Proto-Celtic. They form a branch of the Indo-European language family...

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Gbaya languages

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The Gbaya languages, also known as Gbaya–Manza–Ngbaka, are a family of perhaps a dozen languages spoken mainly in the western Central African Republic...

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