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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Dala,For,Konjara,Furakang,Fora,Kurka,Kondjara,Kungara,Furawi,Yerge,Four,Forok,Korra,Lali,Fordunga,Onage,Kadirgi,Forta
 
 
<b>Description:</b>
 
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. It belongs to the Fur branch of the Nilo-Saharan phylum. It has about 3,000,000 speakers (500,000 in 1983.)
The consonantal phonemes are:
All symbols have their IPA value except for the following: j = [ɟ], ñ = [ɲ] and y = [j]. z occurs only as an allophone of y. Arabic consonants are sometimes used in loanwords. /h/ is very rare.
The vowels are as in Latin: a e i o u. There is dispute as to whether the +ATR vowels [ɛ], [ɔ], [ɪ], [ʊ] are phonetic variants or separate phonemes. /f/ is in free variation amongst a series of sounds ranging between [p] and [f]; thus some sources give the name of the language as pɔɔr.
There are two underlying tonemes, L (low) and H (high); phonetically, L, H, mid, HL and LH are all found.
Interestingly, metathesis is an extremely common, and regular, grammatical phenomenon in Fur; when a consonant pronoun prefix is prefixed to a verb that begins with a consonant, either the verb's first consonant is deleted or it changes places with the following vowel. Eg: lem-<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=747959 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Fur Language Speakers</h2>
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12.420429, 30.675301, Sudan
9.102097, 18.281250, Africa</googlemap>
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        <tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Miscellaneous:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_fvr_misc-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_fvr_misc-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
 
<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/sudan Sudan]</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>
 
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/africa Africa]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>fvr</td></tr>
 
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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Nilo-Saharan Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Fur Nilo-Saharan Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Fur Language]]</b>
 
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