Zaghawa language

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The Zaghawa language is an Eastern Saharan language spoken primarily by the Zaghawa people of Chad and western Sudan.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Saharan language
Saharan language
language
closelyRelatedTo Berti language NERFINISHED
other Eastern Saharan varieties
ethnicGroup Zaghawa people NERFINISHED
family Nilo-Saharan languages NERFINISHED
glottocode zagh1240
hasAlternativeName Beria language NERFINISHED
Zaghawa-Beria NERFINISHED
hasAutonym "Beria" NERFINISHED
hasConsonantPhonemes ejectives
implosives
hasDialects Beria proper
Kube
Wagi
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive grammars
phonological studies
hasVowelSystem ATR vowel harmony
isEndangered true
iso639-3Code zag
languageStatus minority language
regional language
morphologyType agglutinative
nativeSpeakers "tens of thousands"
region Darfur NERFINISHED
Sahel NERFINISHED
eastern Chad
spokenIn Chad NERFINISHED
Sudan
western Sudan
subfamily Saharan languages NERFINISHED
subgroup Eastern Saharan languages NERFINISHED
threatenedBy Arabic NERFINISHED
French NERFINISHED
usedBy Zaghawa communities in Chad
Zaghawa communities in Sudan
usedIn local trade
oral tradition
poetry
storytelling
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Zaghawa script NERFINISHED

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western Sudan hasLanguage Zaghawa language
Saharan languages hasMemberLanguage Zaghawa language
Maba language hasNeighborLanguage Zaghawa language
Zaghawa people language Zaghawa language
Darfur region languageSpoken Zaghawa language
Saharan languages majorLanguage Zaghawa language