The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family . They are spoken in parts of the Sahel . They include 196 languages spoken across northern Nigeria , southern Niger , southern Chad , 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. Hausa, along with Mafa and Karai Karai , are the only three Chadic languages with more than 1 million speakers.
3-545: Dghweɗe (also known as Hude, Johode, Traude, Dehoxde, Tghuade, Toghwede, Wa'a, Azaghvana, Zaghvana) is a Chadic language spoken in Borno State , Nigeria in the Gwoza LGA. This article about a Biu-Mandara 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 . Chadic languages Paul Newman (1977) classified
6-506: Is South Bauchi and part of the Polci cluster. A suggestion for including the language isolate Kujargé as an early-diverged member, which subsequently became influenced by East Chadic, has been made by Blench (2008). Chadic languages contain many Nilo-Saharan loanwords from either the Songhay or Maban branches, pointing to early contact between Chadic and Nilo-Saharan speakers as Chadic
9-493: The languages into the four groups which have been accepted in all subsequent literature. Further subbranching, however, has not been as robust; Roger Blench (2006), for example, only accepts the A/B bifurcation of East Chadic. Subsequent work by Joseph Lovestrand argues strongly that Kujarge is a valid member of East Chadic. The placing of Luri as a primary split of West Chadic is erroneous. Bernard Caron (2004) shows that this language
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