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Small language family of Sudan and Chad
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The Fur, Furan or For languages constitute a small, closely related family, which is a proposed member of the Nilo-Saharan family. Its members are:Fur in western Sudan and eastern Chad with around 745,600 speakers in 2004.
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“Was there any more repellent sight than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more splendid than herself?”
“It is really a joy to slip furs around a beautiful, luxurious woman, to see and feel how her neck, her lovely limbs snuggle against the costly soft furs, to lift the stray locks of her hair, and place them outside the collar, and when she takes off her cloak and the cosy warmth and the subtle scent of her body lingers on the tips of the sable, the effect is overpowering.”
“’Twas never merry world since, of two usuries, the merriest was put down, and the worser allowed by order of law a furred gown to keep him warm; and furred with fox on lambskins too, to signify that craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing.”
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The Fur, Furan or For languages constitute a small, closely related family, which is a proposed member of the Nilo-Saharan family. Its members are:
Fur in western Sudan and eastern Chad with around 745,600 speakers in 2004.
Amdang (also called Mimi) in eastern Chad with around 41,100 speakers in 2000.
