Bagirmi languages

The Bagirmi languages comprise half a dozen languages spoken in southern Chad. They are members of the Central Sudanic language family.

Bagirmi
Geographic
distribution		Chad
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
Glottologbagi1248[1]

The most populous Bagirmi language is Naba, spoken by the Bilala, Kuka, and Medogo, who together number a quarter million. The languages are:

Barma (Bagirmi proper), Naba, Kenga, Fer, Beraku, Disa

Ethnologue lists a couple more (Jaya, Morom) between Kenga and Naba, and Gula (Sara Gula) further south, next to Sar.

Footnotes
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bagirmic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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