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West Chadic languages
The West Chadic languages of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken principally in Niger and Nigeria. They include Hausa, the most populous Chadic language and a major language of West Africa.
The branches of West Chadic go either by names or by letters and numbers in an outline format.
In addition, Poki is purportedly West Chadic, but no data is available.
George Starostin's (2010) internal classification of West Chadic as presented in Blažek (2010):
Roger Blench's (2021) internal classification of West Chadic:
Distributions of West Chadic branches:
Roger Blench (2022) suggests that West Chadic languages may have spread via a gradual agricultural dispersal in Central Nigeria, starting from 3,000–4,000 years ago. Blench notes that West Chadic morphology has been heavily influenced by Plateau languages, likely as a result of long-term intermarriage that occurred as West Chadic incomers took local wives who spoke Plateau languages.
Although no full reconstruction of West Chadic has been published, reconstructions of numerals for West Chadic and its subgroups have been proposed by Václav Blažek (2018).
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West Chadic languages
The West Chadic languages of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken principally in Niger and Nigeria. They include Hausa, the most populous Chadic language and a major language of West Africa.
The branches of West Chadic go either by names or by letters and numbers in an outline format.
In addition, Poki is purportedly West Chadic, but no data is available.
George Starostin's (2010) internal classification of West Chadic as presented in Blažek (2010):
Roger Blench's (2021) internal classification of West Chadic:
Distributions of West Chadic branches:
Roger Blench (2022) suggests that West Chadic languages may have spread via a gradual agricultural dispersal in Central Nigeria, starting from 3,000–4,000 years ago. Blench notes that West Chadic morphology has been heavily influenced by Plateau languages, likely as a result of long-term intermarriage that occurred as West Chadic incomers took local wives who spoke Plateau languages.
Although no full reconstruction of West Chadic has been published, reconstructions of numerals for West Chadic and its subgroups have been proposed by Václav Blažek (2018).
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