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Chadic languages, the Glossary

The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.^[1]

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Afroasiatic languages

Adamawa languages

The Adamawa languages are a putative family of 80–90 languages scattered across the Adamawa Plateau in Central Africa, in northern Cameroon, north-western Central African Republic, southern Chad, and eastern Nigeria, spoken altogether by only one and a half million people (as of 1996).

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Afroasiatic languages

The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel.

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Angas languages

The Angas, Angas–Sura, or Central West Chadic languages (also known as A.3 West Chadic) are a branch of West Chadic languages spoken in Plateau State, north-central Nigeria.

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Bade languages

The Bade languages (also known as B.1 West Chadic or the Bade–Ngizim languages) are a branch of West Chadic languages that are spoken in Borno State and Jigawa State of northern Nigeria.

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Bata language

Bata (Gbwata) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria in Adamawa State in the Numan, Song, Fufore and Jimeta gire Yola maiha Demsa lamorde LGAs, and in Cameroon in North Province along the border with Nigeria.

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Biu–Mandara languages

The Biu–Mandara or Central Chadic languages of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon.

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Bole–Tangale languages

The Bole–Tangale languages (also known as the A.2 West Chadic languages) are a branch of West Chadic languages that are spoken in various states of northeastern Nigeria.

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Bura language

Bura-Pabir (also known as Bura, Burra, Bourrah, Pabir, Babir, Babur, Barburr, Mya Bura, Kwojeffa, Huve, Huviya) is a Chadic language spoken in North-eastern Nigeria by the Babur/Bura people.

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Cameroon

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa.

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Chad

Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa.

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Coptic language

Coptic (Bohairic Coptic) is a group of closely related Egyptian dialects, representing the most recent developments of the Egyptian language, and historically spoken by the Copts, starting from the third century AD in Roman Egypt. Chadic languages and Coptic language are Afroasiatic languages.

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Cushitic languages

The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Chadic languages and Cushitic languages are Afroasiatic languages.

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Dangaléat language

Dangaléat (also known as Dangla, Danal, Dangal) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad.

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Dizoid languages

The Dizoid or Maji (Majoid) languages consist of three languages spoken in southwestern Ethiopia.

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East Chadic languages

The three dozen East Chadic languages of the Chadic family are spoken in Chad and Cameroon.

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Gidar language

Gidar (Gidder), or Kaɗa, is a Biu–Mandara (Chadic) language of Cameroon and Chad.

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Hausa language

Hausa (Harshen/Halshen Hausa; Ajami: هَرْشٜىٰن هَوْسَا) is a Chadic language that is spoken by the Hausa people in the northern parts of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin and Togo, and the southern parts of Niger, and Chad, with significant minorities in Ivory Coast.

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Herrmann Jungraithmayr

Herrmann Rudolf Jungraithmayr (born 7 May 1931) is an Austrian Africanist and retired university professor.

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Igor M. Diakonoff

Igor Mikhailovich Diakonoff (occasionally spelled Diakonov, И́горь Миха́йлович Дья́конов; 12 January 1915 – 2 May 1999) was a Russian historian, linguist, and translator and a renowned expert on the Ancient Near East and its languages.

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Kamwe language

Kamwe (also spelt Kamue) is a Chadic language native to Adamawa State and Borno State of Nigeria as well as to North-Western Cameroon.

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Kera language

Kera is an East Chadic language spoken by 45,000 people in Southwest Chad and 6,000 people in North Cameroon.

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Kujargé language

The Kujargé language is spoken in seven villages in eastern Chad near Jebel Mirra, and in villages scattered along the lower Wadi Salih and Wadi Azum in Darfur, Sudan.

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Language isolate

A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages.

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Lingua franca

A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.

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Maban languages

The Maban languages are a small family of languages which have been included in the hypothetical Nilo-Saharan language family.

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Masa languages

The Masa languages are a group of closely related Chadic languages of southwestern Chad and northern Cameroon.

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Mokilko language

Mokilko, or Mukulu (also known as Gergiko, Guerguiko, Mokulu, Mokoulou, Djonkor Guera, Dyongor Guera, Diongor Guera, Jonkor-Gera), is a Chadic language spoken in central Chad.

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Musgu language

Musgu is a cluster of closely related language varieties of the Biu–Mandara subgroup of the Chadic languages spoken in Cameroon and Chad.

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Nancere language

Nancere (Nanjeri) is an East Chadic language spoken in the Tandjilé Region of Chad.

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Niger

Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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Paul Newman (linguist)

Paul Newman (born 1937) is an American linguist active in the study of African languages.

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Polci language

Polci (Pəlci, Posə) is an Afro-Asiatic language of Bauchi State, Nigeria.

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Proto-Afroasiatic language

Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the reconstructed proto-language from which all modern Afroasiatic languages are descended. Chadic languages and proto-Afroasiatic language are Afroasiatic languages.

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Roger Blench

Roger Marsh Blench (born August 1, 1953) is a British linguist, ethnomusicologist and development anthropologist.

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Ron languages

The Ron, Ronic or Ron–Fyer languages, group A.4 of the West Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, are spoken in Plateau State, north-central Nigeria.

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Sahel

The Sahel region or Sahelian acacia savanna is a biogeographical region in Africa.

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Semitic languages

The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Chadic languages and Semitic languages are Afroasiatic languages.

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Sokoro language

Sokoro is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad.

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Songhay languages

The Songhay, Songhai or Ayneha languages are a group of closely related languages/dialects centred on the middle stretches of the Niger River in the West African countries of Mali, Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso and Nigeria.

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South Bauchi languages

The South Bauchi languages (also called the B.3 West Chadic or Barawa languages) are a branch of West Chadic languages that are spoken in Bauchi State and Plateau State, Nigeria.

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Tarifit

Tarifit Berber, also known as Riffian or locally as Tamazight (italics) is a Zenati Berber language spoken in the Rif region in northern Morocco.

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Tumak language

Tumak, also known as Toumak, Tumag, Tummok, Sara Toumak, Tumac, and Dije, is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the southwestern Chadian prefectures of Moyen-Chari and Koumra.

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Warji language

Warji (Warjawa) or Sirzakwai is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria.

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West Africa

West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.

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West Chadic languages

The West Chadic languages of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken principally in Niger and Nigeria.

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Yedina language

Yedina, also known as Buduma (Boudouma), is a Chadic language of the Biu–Mandara branch spoken around Lake Chad in western Chad and neighbouring Cameroon and Nigeria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chadic_languages

Also known as Chadic, Chadic (language), Chadic language, ISO 639:cdc, List of Chadic languages, Proto-Chadic.

Chadic languages, the Glossary

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Afroasiatic languages

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