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The Songhay, Songhai or Ayneha [3] [4] languages ( [sõʁaj], [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, Djenné, Niamey and Gao.
- Nilo-Saharan?Songhay–Saharan?Songhay
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Zarma ( Zarma Ciine/Sanni; Ajami: زَرْمَ ݘِينٜ / زَرْمَ سَنِّ) is one of the Songhay languages. It is the leading indigenous language of the southwestern lobe of the West African nation of Niger, where the Niger River flows and the capital city, Niamey, is located. Zarma is the second-most common language in the country ...
- 4.2 million (2019)
- Southwestern Niger
The Songhai people ( autonym: Ayneha) are an ethnolinguistic 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. Predominantly adherents of Islam, the Songhai are primarily located in Niger and Mali within ...
- 406,000 (2.9%)
- 5,106,423 (21.2%)
- 1,984,114 (5.9%)
Most of the work for this dictionary was done as a by-product of grant-supported fieldwork focused on other Songhay and non-Songhay Malian languages between 1991 and 2005, with some mopping-up and editing done subsequently. The funding most relevant to Humburi Senni was from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for
Description. Dictionary of Humburi Senni, a Songhay language spoken in Hombori, Mali, with French and English translations of lexical items and with grammatical comments in English. See also Heath, Grammar of Humburi Senni (Songhay of Hombori, Mali). A volume of texts is in preparation. These works are also archived online at Language ...
Songhay is mostly a tonal, SOV group of languages, an exception being the divergent Koyra Chiini of Timbuktu, which is non-tonal and uses SVO order. Songhay has a morpheme -ndi which marks either the causative or the agentless passive. Verbs can even take two instances of the morpheme, one for each meaning.
