Kabalai
Kaba-Lai; Kabalay; Kabalaye; Keb-Kaye; Gablai; Lay; Lai;
Afro-Asiatic; Chadic; Biu-Mandara
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"The home area of the Kabalay people is in Laï and along the eastern side of the Logone River, in the Messéré and Laï-Rural cantons of the Laï subprefecture in the Tandjilé prefecture of Chad."
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"The home area of the Kabalay people is in Laï and along the eastern side of the Logone River, in the Messéré and Laï-Rural cantons of the Laï subprefecture in the Tandjilé prefecture of Chad."
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Nancere, Chadian Arabic, French, Ngambay, Gabri, Tobanga
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"In general, Kabalay is used for communication within the community, and a variety of others are used when communicating with those who are not Kabalay."
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Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1993 census.
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- Sociolinguistic Survey of the Kabalay Language of ChadHamm, Cameron. 2002. "Sociolinguistic Survey of the Kabalay Language of Chad." Online: http://www.sil.org/silesr/2003/silesr2003-008.pdf.http://www.sil.org/silesr/2003/silesr2003-008.pdf
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
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