Dazaga
| Dazaga | ||
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Spoken in |
Chad , Niger | |
| speaker | approx. 537,000 | |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | - | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
ssa |
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| ISO 639-3 |
dzg |
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Dazaga (also: Dasa , Daza , Dazza and Gorane ) is a language spoken in Chad and Niger by the Daza ethnic group belonging to the Tubu . It is one of the Saharan languages , a branch of the Nilo- Saharan language family .
The language is spoken by an estimated 537,000 people. It has around 487,000 speakers in Chad. There it is widespread in the regions of Barh El Gazel , Batha , Borkou , Ennedi , Hadjer-Lamis , Kanem , Lac and Wadi Fira . In Niger, Dazaga is spoken by around 50,000 people in the Gouré and N'Guigmi departments .
Dialects of the Dazaga are Azzaga and Kashirda . Together with the similar language Tedaga , Dazaga is occasionally summarized as the Tubu language, especially in Niger .
literature
- Inouss Haggar, Josiah K. Walters: Lexique tubu (dazaga) - français avec glossaire français - tubu . SIL Niger, Niamey 2005.
- Charles Le Coeur, Marguerite Le Coeur: Grammaire et textes téda-daza . IFAN, Dakar 1956.
- Josiah K. Walters: A grammar of Dazaga . Brill, Boston 2016, ISBN 978-90-04-31558-7 .