Mbay language
Central Sudanic language spoken in Central Africa
Mbay | |
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Sara Mbay | |
Native to | Chad, Central African Republic |
Native speakers | (90,000 cited 1990–1996)[1] |
Language family | Nilo-Saharan?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | myb |
Glottolog | mbay1241 |
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.[2]
References
- The Sara-Bagirmi Language Project -- Mbay
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