Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chadic languages: For a list of words relating to Chadic languages, see the Chadic languages category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 2015.
They include 150 languages spoken across northern Nigeria, southern Niger, southern Chad, Central African Republicand northern Cameroon.
The January 2009 publication in this journal of an article entitled ‘Human Y chromosome haplogroup R-V88: a paternal genetic record of early mid Holocene trans-Saharan connections and the spread of Chadic languages', by Cruciani et al, 1 represents a major step forward in our understanding of the African Y haplogroup diversity and pre-history. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Introduction largest family of languages in the Afro Asiatic (Afro Asiatic languages) phylum. The Intercontinental Dictionary Series.
Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Chadic languages display up to four different sets of All Chadic languages have tonal systems, in which two In some instances, multiple derivative extensions may combine to express multiple pieces of information about the verb. The Chadic languagesform a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.
Hausa (Harshen/Halshen Hausa) is the Chadic language (a branch of the Afroasiatic language family) with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by some 44 million people, and as a second language by another 20 million. Currently
Studies in African Linguistics 26(1): 29‒62.Doornbos, Paul.
1981. The Chadic languages are a branch of languages from the Afroasiatic language family.
Each subgroup in this list contains individual languages. In such systems a nonmarked member (i.e., “neutral” or “aorist”) contrasts with two marked members, the “perfective” and “imperfective.” The imperfective verb stem is often identifiable as a participial form, or “verbal noun.” These characteristics are illustrated in the following examples from Hausa: Although the most likely original word order was verb–subject–object (A compact introductory survey on Chadic as a whole is Russell G. Schuh, “Chadic Overview,” in M. Lionel Bender, Gábor Takács, and David L. Appleyard (eds. University Professor Emeritus, chairman of African Studies, Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Ger. (Available online at Shryock, Aaron.
This list was revised and amplified by Kay Williamson in a document handed out to students at the University of Ibadan, titled Chadic languages of Nigeria in 1972, to include 21 languages classified into three subgroups.
They are spoken in West Africa, mainly in the countries Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic and Cameroon. In: Key, Mary Ritchie & Comrie, Bernard (eds.) Hausa dictionary. Field notes on Kujarge, language metadata, 200-word list plus numerals and pronouns.Ehret, Christopher. Some 140 or more Chadic languages are spoken, predominantly in Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad. Some languages make the extensions part of the verb morphology, making them integral parts of the word when used as suffixes. 1997.
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The most widely spoken Chadic language is Hausa.
They include Hausa, the most populous Chadic language and a major language of West Africa.
Names in parentheses indicate alternative nomenclature or dialect variants. The four subdivisions of the Chadic family West The four subdivisions of the Chadic family—West Chadic, Central Chadic (Biu-Mandara), Masa, and East Chadic—show considerable differences.
The phylum has six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic and Semitic. Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription.
Newman (1977) classified the languages into the four groups which have been accepted in all subsequent literature.
2015. Within each group, the languages are listed alphabetically rather than according to closeness of relationship. …in southwestern Chad, (3) the Chado-Hamitic group, which is related to the Hausa spoken in Nigeria, (4) the Kanembu-Zaghawa languages, spoken in the north, mostly by nomads, (5) the Maba group, spoken in the vicinity of Abéché and throughout the Ouaddaï region of eastern Chad, (6) the Tama languages, spoken… Some 140 or more Chadic languages are spoken, predominantly in Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad.
Some languages make the extensions part of the verb Other languages keep the extensions separated from the verb stem, leaving them as detached particles.
The most widely spoken Chadic language is Hausa, a lingua francaof much of inland Eastern West Africa. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox.
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largest family of languages in the Afro-Asiatic ( Chadic languages display up to four different sets of consonants ( Vowel systems may have as few as two vowels ( Chadic languages are often characterized by All Chadic languages have tonal systems, in which two tones ( Many Afro-Asiatic languages use a “root and pattern” ( Verbs can be modified in two major ways.
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. As reported in 2003, Nigerian English and Nigerian Pidgin were spoken as a second language by 60 million people in Nigeria. …North Africa and central Sahara), Chadic (Central Africa, Lake Chad basin), Cushitic (Horn of Africa), and Omotic (southwestern Ethiopia).