Jenne Chiini

E603879

Jenne Chiini is a Songhay language variety spoken primarily in and around the town of Djenné in Mali.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Songhay language variety
language
closelyRelatedTo Koyra Chiini NERFINISHED
Koyraboro Senni NERFINISHED
country Mali
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Songhay people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Djenné Chiini NERFINISHED
Jenne Ciini NERFINISHED
hasDialect rural surrounding-villages varieties
urban Djenné variety
hasLinguisticFeature SOV basic word order
agglutinative morphology
aspectual auxiliaries
loanwords from Arabic
loanwords from Bambara
loanwords from French
postpositions
subject pronoun clitics
tonal language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory
tonal contrasts
hasResearch descriptive grammar by Jeffrey Heath
lexicon compiled by Jeffrey Heath
ISO639-3 jnn
languageFamily Songhay languages NERFINISHED
languageStatus minority language
linguisticArea Niger–Mali Songhay area NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguage Bambara NERFINISHED
Bozo languages NERFINISHED
Fulfulde NERFINISHED
Tamasheq NERFINISHED
region town of Djenné and surrounding area
spokenBy several thousand speakers
spokenIn Djenné NERFINISHED
Mali NERFINISHED
Mopti Region NERFINISHED
subclassOf Southern Songhay language NERFINISHED
usedAs vernacular language
usedIn daily communication in Djenné
local trade in Djenné region
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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