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	Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology - SD Sudan - Sprache, Langue, Language
		ethnologue - Banda of Mbrés - Language of SD (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bqk
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	www.etymologie.info /~e/s_/sd-sprach.html (5961 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Language (Mar-Max) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Maranao is a language spoken in the Philippines.
		Marka (Dafing) is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso and Mali.
		Masalit is a Maban language spoken in Sudan and Chad.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /WMD.HTM (679 words)

	Encyclopedia: Darfur
		The Daju languages are spoken in isolated pockets across a wide area of Sudan and Chad, in parts of the regions of Kordofan, Darfur, and Wadai.
		The Kujargé language is spoken in seven villages in Chad near Jebel Mirra (11° 45 N, 22° 15 E) and in Sudan in villages scattered along the lower Wadi Salih and Wadi Azum.
		The Fur language (Fur bèle fòòr or fòòraŋ bèle, Arabic فوراوي Fûrâwî; sometimes called Konjara by linguists, after a former ruling clan) is the language of the Fur of Darfur in western Sudan.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Darfur (4867 words)

	Masalit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Masalit (masara in Masalit; Arabic ماساليت) are a people of Darfur in western Sudan and Wadai in eastern Chad.
		They speak Masalit, a Nilo-Saharan language of the Maba group.
		Between 1884 and 1921 they established a state called Dar Masalit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Masalit (67 words)

	Islam in Sudan - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It should be emphasized, however, that the acquisition of Arabic as a second language did not necessarily lead to the assumption of Arab identity.
		Of other peoples living in Darfur in the 1990s who spoke Nilo-Saharan languages and were at least nominally Muslim, the most important were the Masalit, Daju, and Berti.
		A part of the territory they occupied had been formerly controlled by the Fur, but the Masalit gradually encroached on it in the first half of the twentieth century in a series of local skirmishes carried out by villages on both sides, rather than the sultanates.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Islam_in_Sudan (2047 words)

	Masalit language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Masalit is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Masalit ethnic group in western Darfur.
		It has two sociolects: "heavy" Masalit, with a complicated agglutinative grammar, spoken by higher-ranking people and in the countryside, and "light", spoken particularly in the towns, with a somewhat simplified grammatical structure.
		A Masalit grammar: with notes on other languages of Darfur and Wadai.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Masalit_language (94 words)

	Ethnologue: Chad
		The Gol are at Massénya, the Kibar east of Massénya, the Bangri west of Massénya and along the Chari River between Guélendeng and N'Djaména, and the Dam along the Chari River from Bousso to Geúlendeng.
		It was the language of the ancient Bagirmi kingdom.
		Northern Masalit is north and east of Geneina in Sudan, Western Masalit in Ouaddai, Southern Masalit in Sudan.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Chad.html (5929 words)

	Darfur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The main ethnic groups are the Fur (after whom the region is named), an ethnically African people, and the Arab Baggara.
		Some of them, such as the Misseiria, speak languages other than Arabic natively.
		By the summer of 2004, 50,000–80,000 people had been killed and at least a million had been driven from their homes, causing a major humanitarian crisis in the region.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Darfur (1772 words)

	Joshua Project - Peoples by Country Profiles
		The Masalit (and a group of the same people known as the Massalat) are a non-Arab ethnic group.
		The Masalit of Sudan are concentrated in the Dar Masalit ("home of Masalit") district of the northern Darfur Province.
		In addition to farming, the Masalit raise cattle, sheep, and goats, which are helpful in fertilizing their fields, as well as providing milk for the villagers.
	www.joshuaproject.net /peopctry.php?rop3=106392&rog3=CD (1183 words)

	Sudan: Religions. Peoples. Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Arabic is also widely used as a second language, bridging the gap between the many peoples of this country.
		English is the principal language in the south., serving is a lingua franca in areas where Juba pidgin Arabic is not used.
		The languages of Sudan belong to either of 3 families: Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo.
	www.lexicorient.com /e.o/sudan_4.htm (691 words)

	Maban languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Maban languages form a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family.
		As observed by Greenberg in his language typology work, the position of the verb relative to the subject or object is known to correspond, in statistically significant ways, with other syntactic properties.
		Languages placing the verb before the subject and the object, for example, tend to have prepositions and auxiliaries preceding the main verb, whereas languages placing...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9084492 (766 words)

	Who Exactly Are the Terrorists Murdering?
		The Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa peoples are each distinct, yet connected through a shared ancestry, several common practices, and the current conflict which has forced their peoples to flee their ancestral lands and abandon their ways of life.
		In February 2003, the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel groups were formed by members of the Fur, Zaghawa, and Masalit to demand reparation of the marginalization of Darfur and denounce the government's failure to protect the indigenous population from Arab nomad raiders.
		Historically the Masalit have been both self-sufficient and self-contained, yet due to drought and increased pressure on the land, their contact with other groups in the Darfur region has greatly increased.
	www.progress.org /2004/africa02.htm (1125 words)

	On understanding and ending the horror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The fluidity of social relations and ethnic boundaries, whereby both individuals and entire groups could move between and among ethnic categories, was replaced by a fossilizing “native administration.” But the imperial hand was light.
		Darfur’s “Arab Alliance” was established in 1987 and served as the vanguard of an Arab supremacism defined by an ideology and political language that we would call “racial” if the concept were not so alien and inappropriate to Darfur.
		The concept of common citizenship through common Islamic faith was attractive to many Darfurians, and the Islamist embrace neutralized the Darfurian critique of the region’s neglect by Khartoum and its marginalization.
	www.alternatives.ca /print1616.html (5631 words)

	Masalit
		The Masalit are a 250,000 strong non-Arab people group living in the most remote and unknown areas of the North African countries of Sudan and Chad.
		The Masalit developed a reputation for being fiercely independent—they had their own language and customs, produced everything they needed to survive and were capable of defending their own borders.
		The groom must pay a bridewealth consisting of cows and goats and a variable amount of cash, and must live with his bride on her mother’s compound for at least the first year of marriage, working in his mother-in-law’s fields.
	www.sudan101.com /masalit.htm (559 words)

	Arabic in TutorGig Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In an Islam ic context, infidel is the common translation of Arabic language Arabic kafir.
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	www.tutorgig.com /es/Arabic/8 (985 words)

	Cultural Survival
		While the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa are the targets of the violence, members of the regions other ethnic groups have sufferd as well.
		The Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa peoples are distinct, yet connected through a shared ancestry, common cultural practices, and the current conflict that has forced their peoples to flee their ancestral lands and abandon their ways of life.
		Many Masalit whose lands were destroyed by the Janjaweed were former soldiers and policemen of the Sudanese government.
	www.cspubs.org /publications/csv/csv-article.cfm?id=79 (1170 words)

	Masalit language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		(A republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956; involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Sudan, (A family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa) Chad
		Masalit is a (A family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania) Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the (additional info and facts about Masalit) Masalit ethnic group in western (additional info and facts about Darfur) Darfur.
		It has two sociolects: "heavy" Masalit, with a complicated (additional info and facts about agglutinative) agglutinative grammar, spoken by higher-ranking people and in the countryside, and "light", spoken particularly in the towns, with a somewhat simplified grammatical structure.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/masalit_language.htm (221 words)

	The Rosetta Project: the 1000 language archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Masalit texts are available in the categories below.
		A brief language description provided courtesy of the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
		Send a message to a language specialist or native speaker who might be able to review or contribute materials.
	www.rosettaproject.org:8080 /live/search/detailedlanguagerecord?ethnocode=MSA (99 words)

	The Unreached Peoples - Condensed Version - Day 27
		The Hausa language is used in all church services in the towns and rural villages, but there are also a few English services.
		The 250,000 Masalit of Sudan and Chad are nominally Muslim, but they intersperse their Friday prayers in the village mosque with prayers to the spirits of the land and sky.
		The Masalit are often very poor, living in mud huts and surviving by subsistence farming.
	www.ad2000.org /ptw3cond/day27.htm (614 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Sudan - The Quick and the Terrible . Facts and Stats \| PBS
		Arabic is the official language, and the government has attempted to impose Islamic sharia law since 1983.
		It is about the size of Texas and has a population of 6 million; the majority are Muslim and have African features.
		The three largest African tribes in Darfur are the Fur, the Masalit and the Zaghawa.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/sudan/facts.html (1344 words)

	EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page
		Here is the list of languages that you can hear if you order the cassette tape.
		Here is a list of the languages that do not have a recording.
		Here you can listen to a recording in a language you know and then listen to the same recording in a language that you want to learn.
	www.everytongue.com (531 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:MSA
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
		The majority use Arabic as second language; however, people in the central area and women know only limited Arabic.
	www.ethnologue.org /show_language.asp?code=MSA (130 words)

	Sudan Crisis Q&A - External - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Most of the farming groups have an African language as their first language, though most also speak Arabic.
		Members of the SLA appear to come mostly from Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups, though the SLA leaders claim to have support of some members of Arab groups as well.
		There are at least 170,000 refugees in Chad, nearly all from Western Darfur state, from Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa areas close to the border.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGAFR540892004?open&of=ENG-SDN (4545 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Masalit (kana masara) Spoken in: Sudan, Chad Region: Dar Masalit (Gharb Darfur) Total speakers: 0.25 million (1983) Ranking: Not in top 100 Geneticclassification: Nilo-Saharan Maban Mabang Masalit Masalit Language codes ISO 639-2 ss..
		Masbatenyo is a Visayan language spoken by more that 600,000 people, primarily in the province of Masbate in the Philippines.
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	www.dizaynworlds.info /browse.php?title=M/MA/MAS (10534 words)

	yatima: darfur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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		The Janjaweed are carrying out systematic killing raids on Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa villages.
		Ethnically Arab, their stated intention is to drive African tribespeople out of Darfur.
	www.yatima.org /archives/000372.html (175 words)

	Off-line recordings you can order - List 2 - EveryTongue.com
		language recordings not yet on the web (divided by country)
		totals 96.7% of humans who can listen on-line or order a recording in their language.
		(Language name, population and Ethno-code from SIL International, www.ethnologue.com)
	www.everytongue.com /list2-no-web.htm (64 words)

	Prayer room
		Pray that the Bible, which has been translated into the Dinka language, will be readily available to the Dinka.
		Pray for effective use of the Christian resources that are already available in the Rashaida language, and pray that any other resources needed will be quickly developed and readily available.
		Pray for a strong witness and good Christian resources among the Zaghawa in their own language.
	www.sudan101.com /prayer.htm (1415 words)

	Masalit: Southern Masalit language
		Get further details about this language from The Ethnologue and The Rosetta Project.
		See also the alphabetical language list and full country list.
		Another reference on countries, languages and people groups is Peoplegroups.org.
	globalrecordings.net /language?langno=13806 (70 words)

	Sudanese Gospel Resources
		Nuer-speakers are very excited about having the Bible in their language.
		The Moru Bible is currently being produced and we hope to receive it during 2000 — this is a significant step in reaching the Moru people in their own language.
		Arabic is the official language, and other languages include Nubian, Ta Bedawie, Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, and English.
	www.ethnicharvest.org /peoples/countries/sudan.htm (812 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sudan - The Muslim Peoples - Arabs - Nubians - Beja - Fur - Zaghawa - Masalit, Daju, and Berti - West ...
		AllRefer.com - Sudan - The Muslim Peoples - Arabs - Nubians - Beja - Fur - Zaghawa - Masalit, Daju, and Berti - West Africans
		One lived northeast of Al Fashir; the other had migrated to eastern Darfur and western Kurdufan provinces in the nineteenth century.
		The Berti tongue had largely given way to Arabic as a home language.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/sudan/sudan49.html (2184 words)

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