Masalit (kana masara)
Spoken in:	Sudan, Chad
Region:	Dar Masalit (Gharb Darfur)
Total speakers:	0.25 million (1983)
Ranking:	Not in top 100
Genetic classification:	Nilo-Saharan  Maban   Mabang    Masalit     Masalit
Language codes
ISO 639-2	ssa
SIL	MSA
Linguasphere
Location

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.

Bibliography

• Edgar, John. A Masalit grammar: with notes on other languages of Darfur and Wadai. Berlin: D. Reimer, 1989. (Sprache und Oralitat in Afrika; 3).