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Humburi Senni
humburi ciini هُمْبُرِ ٺِينِ‎
Native to	Burkina Faso, Mali
Region	Hombori
Native speakers	(81,000 cited 1999–2021)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Songhay Southern Humburi Senni
Dialects	Hombori Maransé
Writing system	Latin Arabic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hmb
Glottolog	humb1243
Location of Songhay languages Northwest Songhay:   Korandje   Koyra Chiini   Tadaksahak   Tasawaq   Tagdal Eastern Songhay:   Tondi Songway Kiini   Humburi Senni   Koyraboro Senni   Zarma language   Songhoyboro Ciine   Dendi

Humburi Senni, or Central Songhay, is a variety of Southern Songhai spoken in the Hombori region, straddling the Burkina–Mali border.

Orthography

Table below illustrates the Latin alphabet for Humburi Senni in Mali, as standardized by "DNAFLA".

Table below illustrates the Arabic (Ajami) alphabet for Humburi Senni, based on UNESCO.BREDA report on standardization of Arabic script in published in 1987 in Bamako.

References

1. Heath, Jeffrey, (2015) Dictionary Humburi Senni (Songhay of Hombori, Mali) - English - French. University of Michigan. Link (Archive)
2. Humburi Senni at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
3. This map is based on classification from Glottolog and data from Ethnologue.
4. République du Mali, Direction nationale de l’alphabétisation fonctionnelle et de la linguistique appliquée, Alphabets et règles d'orthographe des langues nationales, Bamako, DNAFLA, 1993
5. ^ Chtatou, M. (1992). Using Arabic script in writing the languages of the peoples of Muslim africa. Institute of African Studies.
6. ^ Kew, Jonathan (2 June 2003). Proposal to encode Arabic-script letters for African languages (PDF).

External links

• Heath, Jeffrey, (2015) Dictionary Humburi Senni (Songhay of Hombori, Mali) - English - French. University of Michigan. Link (Archive)
• Heath, Jeffrey, (2014) Grammar of Humburi Senni (Songhay of Hombori, Mali). University of Michigan. Link

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