chadic

Noun
  1. A family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa (synset 106998936)
    is a type of: afrasian, afrasian language, afro-asiatic, afroasiatic, afroasiatic language, hamito-semitic - a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa
    subtypes:
    • west chadic - a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria; Hausa in the most important member
    • biu-mandara - a group of Chadic languages spoken in the border area between Cameroon and Nigeria south of Lake Chad
    • east chadic - a group of Chadic languages spoken in Chad
    • masa - an independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages
    same as: chad, chadic language

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