Day (language)
| Day ( Dày ) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Chad (southwest) | |
| speaker | 49,900 (1993) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
dai |
|
The Day is a language in Chad in the subprefectures Moïssala and Koumra is spoken.
It is an Adamaua language that belongs to the Niger-Congo language family .
classification
The day is part of the Bua languages. This group is in turn part of the Adamaua-Ubangi languages, which in turn belong to the Niger-Congo language family.
Phonology
The day is a tonal language that has three tones - low, medium and high.
swell
- Nougayrol, Pierre, Éléments de phonologie du day de Bouna , dans Études phonologiques tchadiennes (Jean-Pierre Caprile, éd.), Pp. 213-231, Paris, SELAF, 1977, ISBN 2-85297-019-8