en Fania language

Person	Kulaanu
People	Kulaaway
Language	Kulaale

Fania
Fania
Kulaale
Native to	Chad
Native speakers	(1,100 cited 1997)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Mbum–Day Bua Fania; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	fni
Glottolog	fani1244
ELP	Fania

Fania (Fagnan; also called Kulaale) is an Adamawa language of Chad. The northern and southern dialects are rather divergent.

Names

Fania is an exonym. Speakers refer to their own language as Kulaale, their people as Kulaaway, and one person as Kulaanu.^[2]

Names listed in Boyeldieu, et al. (2018:56):^[3]

Autonym in Khalil Alio: Ɛma [ɛma] / pl. Ɛiwɛ [ɛɪwɛ]
Autonym in Tilé Nougar: Kulaanum [kʊ̀láːnʊ́m] / pl. Kulaaway [kʊ̀láːwɐ̀y]
Glossonym: Kulaale [kʊ̀láːlɛ̀] / pl. Kulaaru [kʊ̀láːɽʊ̀]

Villages

Ethnologue (22nd ed.) lists Karo, Malakonjo, Rim, Sengué, and Sisi villages (Mouraye area north of Sarh) as Fania locations. Lionnet also lists the village of Tili Nugar (Tilé Nougar).

References

^ Fania at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Lionnet, Florian. Chadic languages.
^ Boyeldieu, Pascal, Raimund Kastenholz, Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer & Florian Lionnet (2018). The Bua Group languages (Chad, Adamawa 13): A comparative perspective. In Kramer & Kießling (eds.), Current approaches to Adamawa and Gur languages. Cologne: 2018, 53-126.

[e18-1] Fania at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Lionnet-2] Lionnet, Florian. Chadic languages.

[Boyeldieu-3] Boyeldieu, Pascal, Raimund Kastenholz, Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer & Florian Lionnet (2018). The Bua Group languages (Chad, Adamawa 13): A comparative perspective. In Kramer & Kießling (eds.), Current approaches to Adamawa and Gur languages. Cologne: 2018, 53-126.

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