Geographic
distribution: Darfur and Chad Subdivisions: Fur
Amdang | Linguistic classification: Nilo-Saharan?
Fur Glottolog: fura1235 | |
The Fur or For languages constitute a small, closely related family which are a proposed member of the Nilo-Saharan family. Fur in western Sudan had 500,000 speakers in 1983 (before the Darfur crisis), and Amdang (also called Mimi) in eastern Chad had 5,000 speakers.
References
Fur languages Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA