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Zaghawa is a Saharan language spoken by the Zaghawa people of east-central Chad (in the Sahel) and northwestern Sudan (Darfur). The people who speak this language call it Beria, from Beri, the endonym of the Zaghawa people, and a, Zaghawa for "mouth". It has been estimated that there are between 750,000 native Zaghawa speakers, who primarily live in Chad and the Darfur region of Sudan.

Zaghawa
Beria (Beriaa)
Native toChad, Sudan
Regionnortheastern Chad, northwestern Sudan
EthnicityZaghawa people, Awlad Mana
Native speakers
750,000 native speakers
1,350,000 L2 (2006)[1]
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
Dialects
Writing system
Zaghawa alphabet (proposed)
Language codes
ISO 639-3zag
Glottologzagh1240
Linguasphere02-CAA-aa
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Dialects


Zaghawa clans are:[2]

Zaghawa dialects, which do not always correspond to clan divisions, are:[2]

DialectOther namesClansPopulationMajor communitiesLocations
TubaBideyat (Arabic), BorogatBiria, Brogat15,000Bahaï, Bao Bilia, KalaïtChad: canton Kobé-Nord-Est (Iriba s.p.); sub-prefectures Bao Bilia and Kalaït (Ennedi prefecture); Sudan: Northern Dar Fur
Dirong-GurufDurong, GouroufDirong, Guruf4,000Ebiri, Mardébé, TrongaChad: cantons Dirong and Gourouf, and a few villages in Kapka canton (Iriba s.p.)
KubeZaghawa (Arabic), KobeKapka, Kige, Kuba25,000Bakaoré (Matadjana), Iriba, Kouba, TinéChad: cantons Kapka, Kobé-Nord-Est, Kobé-Nord-Ouest, and Kobé-Sud (Iriba s.p.); Sudan: Northern Dar Fur (near the Chadian border)
WegiTwer (Arabic), Artagh, Gala, WagíWegi100,000Ambodu, Kornoye, KutumSudan: Northern Dar Fur

Phonology



Vowels


Zaghawa has a nine-vowel system with advanced-tongue-root vowel harmony. The vowels fall into two sets:

with the vowels of affixes depending on the set of vowels in the stem, and with /a/ functioning in both sets. There is some variation among dialects as to the presence of a tenth vowel, /ə/, which in some dialects functions as the +ATR counterpart of /a/. Diphthongs are /ei əu iə/ and /aɪ aʊ ɔɪ/.


Consonants


Consonants are simple:

Labial Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Pharyngeal Glottal
Stop voiceless p t k
voiced b d g
Fricative voiceless f s ʃ (ħ) h
voiced (ʒ)
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Approximant l j w
Trill r
Tap ɾ

Osman also includes /ʒ ħ/ in this list. /ʃ/ occurs primarily in the Sudanese dialect as a variant of /s/ appearing before /i/. The phonemic status of the rhotics are unclear: Osman states that [ɾ r] may be exchanged without any change in meaning, yet maintains that they are distinct phonemes. Of the obstruents, /p/ may not occur word-initially, and only /p t k s/ may occur word-finally, with /b/ in final position in some dialects. /r/ may not occur word-initially, and /f ɾ/ only appear in the middle of words, as in /tòrfù/ 'bird'.


Tone


There are five tones, high, mid, low, rising, falling, all of which may occur on simple vowels, for example in /ɪ́ɡɪ́/ I watered, /ɪ̌ɡɪ̂/ I said, /ɪ̀ɡɪ̀/ right (direction). Tone distinguishes words, but also has grammatical functions; for example, the plural of many nouns is formed by changing the tone of the final syllable from low to high, and the perfective aspect of many verbs is similarly formed by changing the tone of the final syllable from low to high.


Syllable structure


Words tend to be short, often CV and CVCV. The most complex syllables are CVC and CRV, where R is either of the two rhotics.


Orthography


In the 1950s, a Zaghawa schoolteacher named Adam Tajir created an alphabet for the Zaghawa language that was based on the clan identification marks (brands). Sometimes known as the camel alphabet, he based the phoneme choice on the Arabic language rather than on Zaghawa. Also, some of the marks were longer than others, which made it harder to use it as a computer font.

In 2000, a Beri veterinarian named Siddick Adam Issa prepared an improved version of the alphabet which is named Beria Giray Erfe (Beria Writing Marks). In 2007, this system of writing was turned into a computer font by Seonil Yun in cooperation with SIL International and the Mission Protestante Franco-Suisse au Tchad.[3]

There is also an Arabic script alphabet under development, based on the Tijani system of writing African languages in the 13th century.


Notes


  1. Zaghawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Anonby, Erik John and Johnson, Eric. 2001. A sociolinguistic survey of the Zaghawa (Beria) of Chad and Sudan, p.9. Moursal-N'Djaména, Chad: Association SIL Tchad.
  3. http://scripts.sil.org/ZaghawaBeria_Home Zaghawa Beria Font

References





На других языках


[de] Zaghawa (Sprache)

Zaghawa (Eigenbezeichnung Beria) ist eine Sprache, die zur Gruppe der saharanischen Sprachen gehört und von ca. 187.000 Menschen im Grenzbereich von Sudan (Region Darfur) und Tschad gesprochen wird.
- [en] Zaghawa language

[fr] Zaghawa (langue)

Le zaghawa (autonyme : beria) est une langue saharienne parlée au Soudan et au Tchad par la population zaghawa et les Awlad Mana.

[it] Lingua zaghawa

Lo zaghawa (Endonimo: Beria) è una lingua appartenente alla famiglia linguistica delle lingue sahariane parlata nella regione del Darfur in Sudan e nel Ciad, dai popoli Zaghawa e Awlad Mana. Si stima che i locutori della lingua siano 274.000.



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