The West Chadic languages of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken principally in Niger and Nigeria . They include Hausa , the most populous Chadic language and a major language of West Africa .
2-652: Bole ( bòo pìkkà , also known as Bolanchi, Ampikka, Bopikka, Bolewa, Bolawa) is a West Chadic language spoken in Nigeria . Dialects include Bara and Fika, spoken in the Fika Emirate . This article about a West Chadic language is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Nigeria -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . West Chadic languages The branches of West Chadic go either by names or by letters and numbers in an outline format. In addition, Poki
4-651: Is purportedly West Chadic, but no data is available. George Starostin 's (2010) internal classification of West Chadic as presented in Blažek (2010): Roger Blench 's (2021) internal classification of West Chadic: Distributions of West Chadic branches: Roger Blench (2022) suggests that West Chadic languages may have spread via a gradual agricultural dispersal in Central Nigeria, starting from 3,000–4,000 years ago. Blench notes that West Chadic morphology has been heavily influenced by Plateau languages , likely as
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