Day is an Adamawa language of southern Chad, spoken by 50,000 or so people southeast of Sarh. Ethnologue reports that its dialects are mutually intelligible, but Blench (2004) lists Ndanga, Njira, Yani, Takawa as apparently separate languages.
Pierre Nougayrol's publications and field notes of Day from the 1970s constitute almost all of the available materials on the Day language.[2][3][4]
Güldemann (2018) notes that Day has few morphological and lexical features that are typical of Niger-Congo, and hence cannot be classified with certainty.[5]
^Day at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Nougayrol, Pierre. 1979. Le day de Bouna (Tchad), I: phonologie, syntagmatique nominale, synthématique. (Bibl. de la SELAF (Société des Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France), 71-72.) Paris: Paris. 174pp.
^Nougayrol, Pierre. 1980. Le Day de Bouna (Tchad), II: Lexique Day-Français, Index Français-Day. (Société d'Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France, 77-78.) Paris: Centre National de la Récherche Sciéntifique. 176pp.
^Nougayrol, P. 1977. Éléments de phonologie du day de Bouna. In Caprile, J.-P. (ed.), Études phonologiques tchadiennes, 213-231. Paris: SELAF.
^Güldemann, Tom (2018). "Historical linguistics and genealogical language classification in Africa". In Güldemann, Tom (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of Africa. The World of Linguistics series. Vol. 11. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 58–444. doi:10.1515/9783110421668-002. ISBN 978-3-11-042606-9.
Day is an Adamawa language of southern Chad, spoken by 50,000 or so people southeast of Sarh. Ethnologue reports that its dialects are mutually intelligible...
Language Movement Day (Bengali: ভাষা আন্দোলন দিবস Bhasha Andolôn Dibôs), also called State LanguageDay or Language Martyrs' Day (Bengali: শহীদ দিবস Shôhid...
UN Spanish LanguageDay (Spanish: Día del Idioma Español en las Naciones Unidas) is observed annually on 23 April. The event was established by the UN's...
International Mother LanguageDay is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and to...
Marathi LanguageDay is either of the two popular days being celebrated in the Indian state of Maharashtra where Marathi language is primarily spoken...
Telugu LanguageDay (Telugu: తెలుగు భాషా దినోత్సవము; IAST: Telugu bhāṣā dinōtsavaṁ; "Day of the Telugu Language") is observed on 29 August each year in...
Manipuri LanguageDay (Meitei: Manipuri Longi Numit; /ma-nee-poo-ree lon-gee noo-meet/), is an annual celebration of the Manipuri (Meitei) language in India...
The Romanian LanguageDay (Romanian: Ziua Limbii Române, Romanian pronunciation: [ˈziwa ˈlimbij roˈmɨne]) is a public holiday in Romania and Moldova celebrated...
Macedonian LanguageDay (Macedonian: Ден на македонскиот јазик) is a working holiday in North Macedonia, observed annually on 5 May. On that day in 1945...
UN French LanguageDay (French: Journée de la langue française) is observed annually on 20 March. The event was established by UN's Department of Public...
European Day of Languages is observed 26 September, as proclaimed by the Council of Europe on 6 December 2001, at the end of the European Year of Languages (2001)...
UN Chinese LanguageDay (Chinese: 联合国中文日; pinyin: Liánhéguó zhōngwénrì) is observed annually on April 20. The event was established by the UN Department...
Icelandic LanguageDay (Icelandic: dagur íslenskrar tungu, English: "day of the Icelandic tongue") is a festival celebrated on 16 November each year in...
UN Arabic LanguageDay (Arabic: اليوم العالمي للغة العربية) is observed annually on December 18. The event was established by the UN Educational, Scientific...
case are not modern languages, but reconstructed proto-languages which turn out to be more similar to one another than their modern day descendants". They...
UN Russian LanguageDay (Russian: День русского языка Организации Объединенных Наций) is observed annually on June 6. The event was established by the...
World Portuguese LanguageDay (Portuguese: Dia Mundial da Língua Portuguesa) is observed annually on May 5. The day is marked through a range of musical...
The Tai, Zhuang–Tai, or Daiclanguages (Thai: ภาษาไท or ภาษาไต, transliteration: p̣hās̛̄āthay or p̣hās̛̄ātay, RTGS: phasa thai or phasa tai; Lao: ພາສາໄຕ...
Erzya LanguageDay (Erzya: Erzjan Kelen Chi, Эрзянь келень чи) is observed on April 16 since 1993 mainly in Mordovia by the Erzya people, but also in other...
between languages which are used for day-to-day communication (such as French and German) and dead classical languages such as Latin and Classical Chinese...
poetry day (Meitei: Manipuri Sheirenggi Numit), also known as Meitei Poetry Day, is an annual literary event organised to promote Meitei language (Manipuri)...
the Greek for night-day; or more colloquially the term 24 hours. In other languages, 24 hours is also often used. Other languages also have a separate...
UN Swahili LanguageDay (Swahili: Siku ya Kiswahili ya Umoja wa Mataifa) is observed annually on 7 July. This began when the United Nations declared 7...
majority of languages of Spain belong to the Romance language family, of which Spanish is the sole one with official status as the national language. Others...
would be commemorated as Shimakutuba no Hi (しまくとぅばの日, "Island LanguagesDay"), as the day's numerals in goroawase spell out ku (9), tu (10), ba (8); kutuba...
The Day of Ukrainian Literature and Language is a holiday of the development of the State Language, which is celebrated every year in Ukraine on October...
Labour Day is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of workers. Labour Day has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight-hour...
Global Information