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Mbay language

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ISO 639-3
  
myb

Glottolog
  
mbay1241

Native to
  
Chad, Central African Republic

Native speakers
  
(90,000 cited 1990–1996)

Language family
  
Nilo-Saharan? Central Sudanic Bongo–Bagirmi Sara languages East Mbay

Mbay, or Sara Mbay, is a Bongo–Bagirmi language of Chad and the Central African Republic.

It is reported that Mbay does not have independent personal pronouns. The meaning is largely carried out by subject, object, and possessive affixes attached to verbs, prepositions, and nouns. Other words, such as yá̰a̰ "thing", dèē "person", tàa "speech", and lòo "place" are used somewhat pronominally as something, somebody, something said, and somewhere.

References

Mbay language Wikipedia