Fur (Poor)

Fur is a number of the Fur branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family It is spoken by about 745,800 people in Sudan and Chad. There are about 744,000 speakers of Fur mainly in the states of North Darfur, South Darfur and West Darfur in southwestern Sudan, and also in the east of Sudan. There are also about 1,800 Fur speakers in the Sila region of southeastern Chad.

Fur is also known as Dala, For, Fora, Fordunga, Forok, Forta, Furakang, Furawi, Kadirgi, Konjara, Korra, Kungara, Kurka, Lali, Onage or Yerge. Native speakers call it Poor [pɔɔr] and call themselves Poora [pɔɔra]. Fur is related to Amdang and Mimi, which are spoken in Chad.

Fur is written with the Latin alphabet and is used in literature and on the radio.

Latin alphabet for Fur

Notes

Long vowels are written doubled.
Monolingual Fur speakers pronounced p as [p], while Fur speakers who also speak Arabic might pronounce it [f] or [ɸ]
’/' appears to be used to separate syllables

Download an alphabet chart for Fur (Excel)

Information compiled by Michael Peter Füstumum

Sample text

Abo'ŋ soom'íŋ gʉʉdpáálí: Dɨ̌jakajak Kʉmʉ̂ndʉ Birâm-sí, Mororo ka̱a̱rɨŋɨ Tobolla, naŋ dééŋ dɨó rʉnyʉŋo. Abo'ŋ soom gʉʉd piá na sooma kerŋa-lé nás dée-lé poor'íŋ belé'ŋ rim ɨwɨ́ namaŋ ettê ná yé dog gʉʉdpáálí-ii. Dɨ̌jakajak kí poor'íŋ belé'ŋ jʉtʉ́mó'ŋ daara kwǎŋ, táárí piá suŋŋâ ná domboreŋa ka̱rʉ̂l, naŋ yé dog dítǐn dombore rááŋa ná pʉʉrɨŋ ka̱rɨ́a. Assô assô ǎ̱w ná loŋpii júndí kee nás dáíŋ órré ta̱bʉ́ŋ keeré.

Sample videos in Fur

Links

Information about Fur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_language
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_(Sprache)
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Фур_(язык)
http://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/fvr
https://www.sil.org/

Nilo-Saharan languages

Aringa, Avokaya, Baka, Beli, Bongo, Daza, Fur, Gumuz, Jur Modo, Kanuri, Keliko, Komo, Lokoya, Lugbara, Ma'di, Morokodo, Moru, Narim, Nobiin, OldNubian, Olu'bo, Shilluk, Uduk, Wa'di, Zaghawa, Zarma

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page last modified: 07.01.22

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