Songhay

E727097

Nilo-Saharan language language group

Songhay is a group of closely related Nilo-Saharan languages spoken primarily along the Niger River in Mali, Niger, and neighboring countries, historically associated with the Songhai Empire.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nilo-Saharan language ⓘ language group ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Songhai NERFINISHED ⓘ Songhay languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasContactInfluenceFrom	Arabic NERFINISHED ⓘ Berber languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Hausa NERFINISHED ⓘ Mande languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasDialect	Djerma NERFINISHED ⓘ Eastern Songhay NERFINISHED ⓘ Gao Songhay NERFINISHED ⓘ Korandje NERFINISHED ⓘ Koyra Chiini NERFINISHED ⓘ Koyraboro Senni NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Songhay NERFINISHED ⓘ Tagdal NERFINISHED ⓘ Tasawaq NERFINISHED ⓘ Tihishit NERFINISHED ⓘ Timbuktu Songhay NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Songhay NERFINISHED ⓘ Zarma NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasEthnicGroup	Songhai people NERFINISHED ⓘ Zarma people NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLinguisticFeature	SVO basic word order ⓘ agglutinative morphology ⓘ postpositions ⓘ serial verb constructions ⓘ tonal language ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Arabic script NERFINISHED ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script
historicallyAssociatedWith	Songhai Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageFamilyStatus	controversial classification ⓘ
primaryCountry	Mali NERFINISHED ⓘ Niger NERFINISHED ⓘ
region	West Africa ⓘ
spokenAlong	Niger River NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn	Algeria NERFINISHED ⓘ Benin NERFINISHED ⓘ Burkina Faso NERFINISHED ⓘ Ghana NERFINISHED ⓘ Guinea NERFINISHED ⓘ Ivory Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ Mali NERFINISHED ⓘ Mauritania NERFINISHED ⓘ Niger NERFINISHED ⓘ Nigeria ⓘ Senegal NERFINISHED ⓘ
subclassOf	Nilo-Saharan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedAs	lingua franca in parts of Niger River region ⓘ

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Tamajeq → lexicalInfluenceFrom → Songhay ⓘ