Baguirmi language

Baguirmi language

language
name=Baguirmi
nativename=ɓarma
states=Chad, Nigeria
speakers=44,761
familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
fam2=Central Sudanic
fam3=Western
fam4=Bongo-Bagirmi
fam5=Sara-Bagirmi
fam6=Bagirmi group
iso2=ssa|iso3=bmi

Baguirmi (autonym: "Unicode|ɓarma") is the language of the Baguirmi people of Chad, belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family. It is spoken by 44,761 people (as of 1993), mainly in the Chari-Baguirmi Prefecture. It was the language of the kingdom of Baguirmi.

Baguirmi was given written form, and texts providing basic literacy instruction were composed through the efforts of Don and Orpha Raun late in their Chadian careers, during the 1990s. A font to support the Baguirmi alphabet, and a Keyman input method for Latin keyboards, were developed by Anthony Kimball in 2003, and the body of published Baguirmi literature continues to expand. The majority of this literature is distributed in Chad by David Raun at a token cost, as a service to the Baguirmi-speaking peoples of Chad.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bmi Ethnologue report for Baguirmi]
* [http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/?tsxa=kikiwa?code=Tavultesoft Keyman - Type in Baguirmi]


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