Dendi (Songhai language)

Dendi
Spoken in	Benin , Nigeria
speaker	450,050
Linguistic ; classification	Nilosaharan languages Songhai languages Southern Songhai Dendi ;
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	ssa
ISO 639-3	ddn

Dendi (also Dandawa) is a Songhai language spoken in Benin and Nigeria .

It is widespread in Benin in the departments Atakora and Borgou with around 450,000 speakers (as of 2010) and in Nigeria in the state of Kebbi in the Local Government Areas (administrative districts) Argungu and Bagudo with around 2050 speakers (as of 2000).

Dendi is written in the Latin script .

Dendi is the language of the Dendi ethnic group from the Dendi region .

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Individual evidence

↑ Olivier Walther: Sons of the Soil and Conquerors Who Came on Foot: The Historical Evolution of a West African Border Region . In: African Studies Quarterly . Vol. 13, No. 1 & 2 , 2012, p. 77–78 ( sites.clas.ufl.edu [PDF; accessed November 4, 2018]).

[1] Olivier Walther: Sons of the Soil and Conquerors Who Came on Foot: The Historical Evolution of a West African Border Region . In: African Studies Quarterly . Vol. 13, No. 1 & 2 , 2012, p. 77–78 ( sites.clas.ufl.edu [PDF; accessed November 4, 2018]).