Zarma (Zarma Ciine/Sanni; Ajami: زَرْمَ ݘِينٜ / زَرْمَ سَنِّ) is one of the Songhay languages. It is the leading indigenous language of the southwestern...

The Zarma people are an ethnic group predominantly found in westernmost Niger. They are also found in significant numbers in the adjacent areas of Nigeria...

Look up Zarma or Zerma in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Zarma оr Zerma may refer to: Zarma people, an ethnic group of West Africa Zarma language, a Songhai...

Gao, is unintelligible to speakers of Zarma in Niger, according to Ethnologue. However, Songhoyboro Ciine, Zarma, and Dendi have high mutual intelligibility...

Eġərəw n-Igərǝwăn ⴴⵔⵓ ⵏ ⴴⵔⵓⵏ "river of rivers" Songhay: Isa "the river" Zarma: Isa Beeri "great river" Hausa: Kwara كوَرَ Nupe: Èdù Yoruba: Ọya "named...

migrate from rural Niger, though it is generally considered a Zarma city. Both groups' languages are used as lingua francas. The Muslim population largely...

Gao; and the tonal southern Zarma dialect, spoken from western Niger to northern Ghana), and within the Soninke language (between the non-tonal northernmost...

Dendi is a Songhay language used as a trade language across northern Benin (along the Niger River). It forms a dialect cluster with Zarma and Koyraboro Senni...

as Zarma (or Djerma, the largest subgroup) or Isawaghen. The dialect of Koyraboro Senni spoken in Gao is unintelligible to speakers of the Zarma dialect...

Chiini ([kojra tʃiːni], figuratively "town language"), or Western Songhay, is a member of the Songhay languages spoken in Mali by about 200,000 people (in...

in the Zarma-Songhai and Dendi languages, amo in the Fon language, wara and warakashi in Nagot and Yoruba language and gasaru in Bariba language. The French...

Tamasheq, the official language is French) Buduma: Niger (with French, Arabic, Fula, Gourmanché, Hausa, Kanuri, Songhay-Zarma, Tamasheq, Tasawaq, Tebu)...

million Zarma people of western Niger, who predate the Moroccan invasion and speak the Zarma language, also a member of the Songhay languages. As of 1986...

romanized: al-Balbaliyyah) is a Northern Songhay language which is by far the most northerly of the Songhay languages. It is spoken around the Algerian oasis of...

were settled around the early nineteenth century by Hausa, Songhai, and Zarma people on the river's left bank and Fula people on the right bank. A series...

Hausa people, and speak both the Hausa language and the Djerma language (or Zarma). When using the Zarma language, they are known as the Arawa people. The...

name: Tesăwăq), sometimes also called Ingelshi, is a Northern Songhay language spoken by the Issawaghan or Ingalkoyyu, a community surrounding the town...

DNAFLA, 1993 Chtatou, M. (1992). Using Arabic script in writing the languages of the peoples of Muslim africa. Institute of African Studies. [1] Kew...

Zaghawa at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Zande at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Zarma at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Zemba at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Muniru...

Songhay languages, centered on the Niger River, including Timbuktu and the old capital of Gao. It includes Zarma (Djerma), a major language of Niger...

missionaries and colonial administrators West Africa Zarma language of the Songhay family. It is the language of the southwestern lobe of the West African nation...

differentiating the Songhaiborai from the Zarma people poses a challenge, as both are subgroups within the same language family, sharing a very similar dialect...

or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language. Official language A language designated as having a unique legal...

"ruler", "lord", or "king" in Zarma (or Djerma) language. See Peace Corps/Niger, "An Introduction to the Zarma Language". Christopher Wise. Yambo Ouologuem:...

Endurance, Partnership, Assurance, Reformation, Enthusiasm and Devotion. Many languages have masculine and feminine forms of words – where gender changes the...

national languages, namely Arabic, Buduma, Fulfulde, Gourmanchéma, Hausa, Kanuri, Zarma & Songhai, Tamasheq, Tassawaq, Tebu. These ten national languages, their...

Burmese Tungusic languages (Evenki, Manchu) Turkic languages almost all Uto-Aztecan languages Yukaghir Zarma virtually all Caucasian languages. Standard Chinese...

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either Arabic, French, Zaghawa, Hausa, Zarma, Kanuri or Tuareg. There are thus many borrowings from other languages such as Arabic, Hausa or French. For...

aristocracy, also carries the title Djermakoye. An Introduction to the Zarma Language, p. 3 . James Decalo. Historical Dictionary of Niger. Scarecrow Press/...