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History of research on the Songhay language. Although the study of ancient Arabic manuscripts reveals some writings in the Fulfulde (Fulani) and soŋay (Songhay) languages, the systematic analysis of soŋay did not begin until the end of the nineteenth century, at the beginning of the colonial period. Delafosse is interested in the geopolitics ...
Pages in category "Songhay languages". The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Songhay languages.
Zarma (Djerma, Zabarma), the most widely spoken Songhay language, [3] is a major language of southwestern Niger (downriver from and south of Mali) including in the capital city, Niamey. (In 2009, an official Malian government population estimate for the Djerma people residing in Mali is 3,300,000.) Downriver from Zarma in the country of Benin ...
Subdivisions. Tadaksahak. Tagdal (Tagdal, Tabarog) Tasawaq. Korandje. Glottolog. nort2823. Northern Songhay is the smaller of the two branches of the Songhay languages. It is a group of heavily Berber -influenced dialects spoken in scattered oases of the Sahara .
Songhai / Songhay / Sonrai. Songhai. / Songhay / Sonrai. The Songhai people (also Songhay or Sonrai) are an ethnic group in West Africa who speak the various Songhai languages. Their history and lingua franca is linked to the Songhai Empire which dominated the western Sahel in the 15th and 16th century.
Zarma language. Dendi. The Songhay or Songhai languages ( [soŋaj] or [soŋoj]) are a group of closely related languages / dialects centred on the middle stretches of the Niger River in the West African countries of Mali, Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso and Nigeria. In particular, they are spoken in the cities of Timbuktu and Gao.
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Abstract. Songhay is a language group of the West African Sahel region with more than four million speakers, distributed mainly in western Niger and northeastern Mali along the Niger River, but including outlying pockets scattered as far afield as Algeria, Ghana, and Sudan. Strong contact effects along the periphery—notably involving Berber ...
