Chadic Language (Noun)
Meaning
A family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Chadic language family is a branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages and is spoken by millions of people in the Lake Chad region.
- Chadic languages such as Hausa, Margi, and Kotoko are widely spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and other countries in the region.
- The Chadic languages are tonal languages, with a complex system of two or more tones that distinguish words and grammatical particles.
- Despite being part of the same language family, the Chadic languages are not mutually intelligible, and speakers of one language often cannot understand speakers of another.
- Researchers have identified several subgroups within the Chadic language family, including the Hausa subgroup, the Margi subgroup, and the Musgu subgroup, among others.