Korandjé

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Korandjé is a highly endangered Northern Songhay language spoken in the oasis town of Tabelbala in southwestern Algeria.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Northern Songhay language
endangered language
language
contactZone Berber–Arabic–Songhay contact area
country Algeria
documentationStatus poorly documented
endangermentStatus highly endangered
geographicIsolation oasis community
glottocode kora1292
hasAlternateName Belbali NERFINISHED
Kwarandjey NERFINISHED
Kwarandzyey NERFINISHED
hasInfluenceFrom Arabic NERFINISHED
Berber languages NERFINISHED
Hassaniya Arabic NERFINISHED
Moroccan Arabic NERFINISHED
Taznatit NERFINISHED
Zenaga NERFINISHED
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic NERFINISHED
Berber languages
hasMorphologicalFeature mixed Songhay and Berber morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
emphatic consonants
pharyngeal consonants
hasResearchBy Lameen Souag NERFINISHED
hasSyntacticFeature SVO word order
postpositions
prepositions
iso639-3 kcy
isSpokenInOasisTown Tabelbala NERFINISHED
languageFamily Songhay languages NERFINISHED
languageShiftTo Arabic NERFINISHED
lexicalSimilarity Songhay languages NERFINISHED
linguisticArea Northwestern Sahara NERFINISHED
numberOfSpeakers few hundred
primaryLocality Tabelbala NERFINISHED
region Sahara NERFINISHED
script Arabic script
Latin script
spokenBy Korandjé people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Algeria NERFINISHED
Tabelbala NERFINISHED
Tabelbala oasis NERFINISHED
southwestern Algeria NERFINISHED
status severely endangered
subgroupOf Northern Songhay languages NERFINISHED
transmission not fully transmitted to children

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