| Zari | |
|---|---|
| Region | Bauchi State, Plateau State |
| Ethnicity | 20,700 (2000) |
| Extinct | 2000 |
| Language family | Afro-Asiatic |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zaz |
| Glottolog | zari1242 |
| ELP | Zari |
Zari (Zariwa) is a Chadic dialect cluster of Nigeria. Blench (2019) lists varieties as Zari, Zakshi, and Boto.
Although there is an ethnic population of about 20,000, the last speaker had already died by 2000 (Campbell and Belew 2018).
References
- ^ Zari at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
| West Chadic languages | |||||||
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| Hausa– Gwandara (A.1) | |||||||
| Bole– Tangale (A.2) |
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| Angas (A.3) | |||||||
| Ron (A.4) | |||||||
| Bade (B.1) | |||||||
| North Bauchi (Warji) (B.2) | |||||||
| South Bauchi (Barawa) (B.3) |
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| Others | |||||||
| Italics indicate extinct languages. See also: Chadic languages | |||||||
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