Zari (Zariwa) is a Chadic dialect cluster of Nigeria. Blench (2019) lists varieties as Zari, Zakshi, and Boto.[2]
Zari | |
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Region | Bauchi State, Plateau State |
Ethnicity | 20,700 (2000)[1] |
Extinct | (date missing)[1] |
Language family | Afro-Asiatic
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | zaz |
Glottolog | zari1242 |
ELP |
Although there is an ethnic population of about 20,000, the last speaker had already died by 2000 (Campbell and Belew 2018).
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) | |||||||
Warji (B.2) | |||||||
Barawa (B.3) |
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Others | |||||||
Italics indicate extinct languages. See also: Chadic languages |
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