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Fania (Fagnan; also called Kulaale) is an Adamawa language of Chad. The northern and southern dialects are rather divergent.

Names

Fania is an exonym. Speakers refer to their own language as Kulaale, their people as Kulaaway, and one person as Kulaanu.

Names listed in Boyeldieu, et al. (2018:56):

• Autonym in Khalil Alio: Ɛma / pl. Ɛiwɛ
• Autonym in Tilé Nougar: Kulaanum / pl. Kulaaway
• Glossonym: Kulaale / pl. Kulaaru

Villages

Ethnologue (22nd ed.) lists Karo, Malakonjo, Rim, Sengué, and Sisi villages (Mouraye area north of Sarh) as Fania locations. Lionnet also lists the village of Tili Nugar (Tilé Nougar).

References

1. Fania at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Lionnet, Florian. Chadic languages.
3. Boyeldieu, Pascal, Raimund Kastenholz, Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer & Florian Lionnet (2018). The Bua Group languages (Chad, Adamawa 13): A comparative perspective. In Kramer & Kießling (eds.), Current approaches to Adamawa and Gur languages. Cologne: 2018, 53-126.

• Languages of Chad
• Bua languages