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Chadic
Geographic distribution
Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon
Linguistic classification
Afro-Asiatic
Chadic
Subdivisions
Biu–Mandara
East Chadic
Masa
West Chadic
ISO 639-5
cdc
Glottolog
chad1250
Map of the distribution of the Chadic languages within Africa
Detailed map of the distribution of Chadic languages in Western and Central Africa
The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken in parts of the Sahel. They include 150 languages spoken across northern Nigeria, southern Niger, southern Chad, the Central African Republic, and northern Cameroon. By far the most widely spoken Chadic language is Hausa, a lingua franca of much of inland Eastern West Africa, particularly Niger and the northern half of Nigeria.
The Chadiclanguages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken in parts of the Sahel. They include 150 languages spoken across...
The three dozen East Chadiclanguages of the Chadic family are spoken in Chad and Cameroon. Speakers of various East Chadiclanguages are locally known as...
West Chadiclanguages of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken principally in Niger and Nigeria. They include Hausa, the most populous Chadiclanguage and...
Other major Afroasiatic languages include the Chadic Hausa language with over 34 million native speakers, the Semitic Amharic language with 25 million, and...
of native local languages with Pidgin is inevitable in the areas studied. The Afroasiatic languages of Nigeria are divided into Chadic, Semitic and Berber...
Hausa belongs to the West Chadiclanguages subgroup of the Chadiclanguages group, which in turn is part of the Afroasiatic language family. Native speakers...
Angas, Angas–Sura, or Central West Chadiclanguages (also known as A.3 West Chadic) are a branch of West Chadiclanguages spoken in Plateau State, north-central...
The South Bauchi languages (also called the B.3 West Chadic or Barawa languages) are a branch of West Chadiclanguages that are spoken in Bauchi State...
The Masa languages are a group of closely related Chadiclanguages of southwestern Chad and northern Cameroon. The Masa languages listed in Blench (2006)...
geographically nearby Chadiclanguages." Roger Blench (2003), similarly, considers that "its vocabulary and morphology seem to be partly drawn from Chadic (i.e. Afro-Asiatic)...
ethnolinguistic groups, who speak languages belonging to the Niger–Congo and West Chadiclanguage groups. Below are the languages and dialects spoken by the...
of the Benue–Congo languages which is almost completely submerged in a sea of Chadiclanguages [citation needed]. These languages include Ngas, Tel, Boghom...
The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms) Blench, Roger. 2017. Current research on the A3 West Chadiclanguages. Blench, Roger...
Bade (also spelled Bede, Bedde, or Bode) is a West Chadiclanguage spoken by the Bade people in Yobe State and Jigawa State, Nigeria. Their traditional...
Palatalization and Labialization in Mawa (Eastern Chadic). In: Rothmaler, Eva (ed.), Topics in Chadic Linguistics V, 129–140. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe. Roberts...
The Bade languages (also known as B.1 West Chadic or the Bade–Ngizim languages) are a branch of West Chadiclanguages that are spoken in Borno State and...
Moubi) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad. It forms one of the Mubi languages, a group of East Chadiclanguages. Mubi speakers comprise...
area, Bure is surrounded by other Chadiclanguages such as Gera, Giiwo and Deno (Bole group). Compared to other languages of the same group (e.g. Bole or...
dialect clusters of the Zaar subgroup of the Barawa branch of the Chadiclanguages. The Polci dialects are Zul, Baram (Mbaram), Dir, Buli, Nyamzak/Langas...
Bua languages have had extensive contact with Chadiclanguages. The Bua languages include: Bua language (7,708 speakers in 1993), north of the Chari River...
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