Harshen Fali ya ƙunshi yare biyu da ake magana da su a arewacin Kamaru. Yana daya daga cikin harsunan Greenberg na Adamawa (a matsayin Group G11), an cire shi daga wannan dangin ta Boyd (1989). Roger Blench ya yi zargin cewa tana iya wakiltar ɗayan zuriya da farko da suka yanke reshen hannun jari na Atlantic-Congo.

Harshen Fali
Linguistic classification
Glottolog adam1254[1]

Iri-iri gyara sashe

Dangane da Ethnologue 16, rassa biyu na Fali sun “banbanta,” amma ba a bayyana yadda suka bambanta ba. Blench da alama yana kula dasu kamar rabin dozin yare a rassa biyu. Kudancin Fali yana da masu magana 20,000, tare da yaruka da yawa. Arewa Fali, mai masu magana 16,000, ita ma tana da yarukan da yawa; Masu magana da harshen Arewa Fali suna "saurin" sauyawa zuwa fullancin Adamawa Fulfulde kafin shekarar 1982.

Arewa Fali
Dourbeye (Fali-Dourbeye)
Bossum (Fali-Bossum)
Distance Ga-Rankuwa-Bvəri (Fali du Peske-Bori)
Kudu Fali
Distance Watsa-Kaang (Fali Kangou)
Bele (Fali-Bele)
Fali-Tinguélin

A da ana amfani da yaren Nimbari a yankin kudancin Fali, amma mutanen Nimbari yanzu suna magana da Fali Kangou. [2]

Manazarta gyara sashe

  • Roger Blench, 2004. Jerin yarukan adamawa (ms)
  • Sweetman, Gary. 1981. Nazarin kwatancen yaruka na Fali . Yaoundé: SIL.
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/adam1254 |chapterurl= missing title (help). Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Raimund Kastenholz, Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer. 2012. Nimbari as a language name. Adamawa Languages Project.