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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Africa > Chad > Laal

Laal

A language of Chad

ISO 639-3gdm

Population  750 (2000). Damtar village had its own dialect called Laabe with 3 speakers left in 1977.
Region  Moyen-Chari region, Barh Kôh region, between Korbol and Dik. Centered in Gori, villages of Gori, Damtar, and Mailao near Kouno, northwest of Sarh.
Language map  Southwestern Chad, reference number 76
Alternate names   Gori
Dialects  Laal, Laabe.
Classification  Unclassified
Comments  Some lexical relationship to the Bua group, but Boyeldieu says it should not be classified with Bua. Probably Adamawa, some sources say Chadic.