Songhay languages

E29015
Nilo-Saharan language language family

The Songhay languages are a group of closely related Nilo-Saharan languages spoken primarily along the Niger River in Mali, Niger, and neighboring West African countries.

Aliases (6)
Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Nilo-Saharan language →
language family →
ethnicGroup Songhai people →
geneticAffiliation possibly related to Nilo-Saharan languages →
glottologCode song1307 →
hasAlternativeName Songhai languages →
Songhayic languages →
hasDialectContinuum Songhay dialect continuum →
hasPart Djenné Chiini language →
Djerma language →
Humburi Senni language →
Kaado language →
Korandje language →
Koyra Chiini language →
Koyraboro Senni language →
Tadaksahak language →
Tondi Songway Kiini language →
Zarma language →
historicalCenter Songhai Empire →
iso639FamilyCode son →
languageFamilyStatus controversial classification →
majorVariety Koyra Chiini language →
Koyraboro Senni language →
Zarma language →
neighboringLanguages Bambara language →
Fulfulde language →
Hausa language →
Tuareg languages →
region Sahara →
Western Sahel →
spokenIn Algeria →
Benin →
Burkina Faso →
Gao →
Mali →
Niger →
Niger River region →
Nigeria →
Sahel →
Timbuktu →
West Africa →
subclassOf African languages →
Nilo-Saharan languages →
typologicalFeature SVO basic word order →
agglutinative morphology →
tone languages →
usedAs lingua franca in parts of Niger River valley →
writingSystem Arabic script →
Latin script →
Referenced by (16)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Nilo-Saharan languages →
Nilo-Saharan phylum ("Songhay language") →
Nilo-Saharian ("Songhay") →
includesLanguage
Songhay languages ("Songhai languages") →
Songhay languages ("Songhayic languages") →
hasAlternativeName
Songhay languages ("Zarma language") →
Songhay languages ("Koyraboro Senni language") →
hasPart
Nilo-Saharan languages →
Nilo-Saharan phylum →
hasSubfamily
Songhai Empire ("Songhai languages") →
Songhai people ("Songhai languages") →
language
Nilo-Saharian →
hasSubgroup
West African languages →
includesFamily
Sahel ("Songhai languages") →
languageDiversity
Timbuktu Region ("Songhai languages") →
languageUsed
Songhay languages ("Koyraboro Senni language") →
majorVariety
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