Amdang (sìmí amdangtí)
Spoken in:	Chad, Sudan
Region:	Biltine
Total speakers:	5,000
Ranking:	Not in top 100
Genetic classification:	Nilo-Saharan  Fur   Amdang Biltine is one of the 14 prefectures of Chad. ... This is a list of languages ordered by number of first-language speakers, with some data for second-language use. ... Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ... Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ... Map showing the distribution of the Nilo-Saharan languages. ... The Fur languages constitute a small, closely related first-order subgroup within the Nilo-Saharan languages: Fur in western Sudan with 500,000 speakers and Amdang in eastern Chad (also called Mimi) with 5,000 speakers. ...
Language codes
ISO 639-2	ssa
SIL	AMJ
Location

Amdang (self-named: sìmí amdangtí) is a tongue of near kin to Fur spoken in Chad by about 5,000 people (as of 1983). It is mainly spoken in Chad north of Biltine, and scattered elsewhere in Wadai. There are also small colonies of speakers in Darfur near Woda'a and Fafa, and in Kordofan in the Abu Daza district and at Magrur north of Bara. Most of the ethnic group now speaks Arabic. It is also called Mimi, Mima, or Biltine. (The term "Mimi" is also given, however, to a few other tongues of the area.) ISO 639 is one of several international standards that lists short codes for language names. ... SIL International is a non-profit, faith-based, scientific organization with the main purpose to study, develop and document lesser-known languages for the purpose of expanding linguistic knowledge, promoting world literacy and aiding minority language development. ... Map showing the location of the Amdang language File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 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. ... 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Biltine is one of the 14 prefectures of Chad. ... Wadai was a former sultanate in northern Chad, located to the east of Lake Chad. ... Darfur (Arabic دار فور, meaning home of the Fur) is a region of far western Sudan, bordering the Central African Republic, Libya, and Chad. ... Kordofan is a former province of central Sudan. ... Arabic (العربية) is a Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ...

Amdang is one of the two Fur languages, which together make a branch of Nilo-Saharan. The Fur languages constitute a small, closely related first-order subgroup within the Nilo-Saharan languages: Fur in western Sudan with 500,000 speakers and Amdang in eastern Chad (also called Mimi) with 5,000 speakers. ... Map showing the distribution of the Nilo-Saharan languages. ...

The Ethnologue sees "Mimi" as maybe distinct from "Amdang"; however, the source they quote to back the existence of Mimi (Doornbos & Bender 1983) sees the two as selfsame, believing "Amdang" to be only a name given to "Mimi" in the Biltine area. Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization which studies lesser-known languages primarily to provide the speakers with native language biblical texts. ...

Bibliography

• Paul Doornbos & M. Lionel Bender. 1983. "Languages of Wadai-Darfur", in ed. M. Lionel Bender, Nilo-Saharan Language Studies, African Studies Center, Michigan State University
• Joseph Greenberg. 1972. "On the identity of Jungraithmayr's Mimi", Africana Marburgensia 5.2: 45-49. Mouton, The Hague.
• H. Jungraithmayr. 1971. "How many Mimi Languages are there?", Africana Marburgensia 4.2: 62-69.
• A. N. Tucker and M. A. Bryan. 1956. The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa. International African Institute, Oxford University Press.
• H. MacMichael. 1967 (1922). A History of the Arabs in the Sudan. Barnes and Noble, New York.
• H. Carbou. 1912. La Région du Tchad et du Ouadai. Leroux, Paris.
• M. Gaudefroy-Demombynes. 1907. Documents sur Les Langues de l'Oubangui-Chari, Actes du XIVe Congres des Orientalistes (Alger 1905). Paris.