Mararit
Native toSudan, Chad
Regionwestern sudan and Eastern Chad
EthnicityMararit
Native speakers
(42,000 cited 1993 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Ibiri
  • Abu Charib
Language codes
ISO 639-3mgb
Glottologmara1396
Linguasphere05-PEA-aa

The Mararit language is a Taman language spoken in eastern Chad. There are two dialects, Ibiri and Abou Charib, which Blench (2006) counts as distinct languages. The majority speak the Abou Charid.

Mararit people live in Argid Mararit, Abid Mararit, Wadah area, Donkey Kuma, Sani Kiro, in North Darfur State; in Silala area in South Darfur State and in Gienena province in West Darfur State. The Talgai, Mirakawi, Wilkawi, and Tirgawi are tribes of the Mararit people.

Dialects

There are three dialects according to Rilly (2010:175):[2]

References

  1. ^ Mararit at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Rilly, Claude. 2010. Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-9042922372