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    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...
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  • The Dendi are an ethnic group located in Benin, Niger, Nigeria and northern Togo mainly in the plains of the Niger River. They are part of the Songhai...
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    Collines and Zou Departments. Other important languages are Yoruba, Bariba, Mina, Dendi, Mokole and Yom. Benin implemented a National Literacy and Adult Education...
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  • Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu) Aja-Gbe: Benin (a national language along with Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime...
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  • Ethiopia; Dendi people is one of the ethnic groups living in Benin and Niger; Dendi language (one of the Songhay languages) is spoken by this people. Dendi (gamer)...
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  • Kenga), is a Mande language of Nigeria and Benin. Usage is declining, and the Kyenga are shifting to Hausa in Nigeria and Dendi in Benin. Kyenga at Ethnologue...
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    Cotonou, Benin. Islam, which accounts for more than 27% of the country's population, was brought to Benin from the north by Hausa, and Songhai-Dendi traders...
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    Jigawa, and Bauchi states Teda in northern Nigeria Songhai languages: Zarma (Zabarma) and Dendi in Kebbi State, Zamfara State, Sokoto State, Niger State...
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  • Boko, or Boo, is a Mande language of Benin and Nigeria. Boko language can be better known as Boko, but it is also known as Boo or with the Hausa name Busanci...
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  • Nigeria and Malanville in Benin. Under the Songhai empire, Dendi had been the easternmost province, governed by the prestigious Dendi-fari ("governor of the...
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    while Nilo-Saharan is represented by the Dɛndi people, descending from the Songhai Empire. The Songhay language Dɛndi predominates along the Niger River in...
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    is French, with indigenous languages such as Fon, Bariba, Yoruba and Dendi also spoken. The largest religious group in Benin is Christianity (52.2%), followed...
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  • Downriver from Zarma in the country of Benin is Dendi, heavily influenced by the neighboring Bariba language of the Niger–Congo family. Upriver from...
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    Ciine, Zarma, and Dendi have high mutual intelligibility within Niger. For linguists, a major point of interest in the Songhay languages has been the difficulty...
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    Yoruba language Yoruba twins Languages of Benin Fon language Gen language Kabiyé language Phla–Pherá languages Yoruba language Mina Goun Dendi Natimba...
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    Übersee 75, 267–277. Zima, Petr. 1994. Lexique dendi (songhay): Djougou, Bénin: avec un index français-dendi. (Westafrikanische Studien 4). Köln: Rüdiger...
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    Xueda and Aja who came from what is now Togo. Northern peoples include the Dendi in the north-central area, who came from what is now Mali in the 16th century...
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    Wagasi (category Benin stubs)
    wagasi in the Zarma-Songhai and Dendi languages, amo in the Fon language, wara in Nagot language and gasaru in Bariba language. The French also call it fromage...
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  • Bariba, also known as Baatonum, is the language of the Bariba people of Benin and Nigeria and was the language of the state of Borgu. The native speakers...
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  • Baatonum, Dendi, Aja and Ditammari for formal education and adult literacy. However, these six languages are still not truly national in Benin.[citation...
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    Gbékoun script (category Yoruba language)
    an indigenous script for all the languages of the Republic of Benin, and has been applied to Fon, Adja, Yoruba, Dendi, Boo, Yom and Ayizo. It has been...
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    communities of speakers are found in the following other countries: Northern Benin Sahel Region and Est Region, Burkina Faso Urban Areas in Northern Ghana...
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    Songhai Empire (category Articles with Arabic-language sources (ar))
    dynasty Sonni dynasty Askiya dynasty Saadi dynasty Mali Empire Dendi Kingdom Songhai languages Songhai country Songhaiborai Bethwell A. Ogot, Africa from...
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    Borgou [bɔʁ.ɡu] is one of the twelve departments of Benin. Borgou borders the country of Nigeria and the departments of Alibori, Atakora, Collines and...
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  • Askiya dynasty (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    in what is today Songhai in south-western Niger and further south in the Dendi. After Sonni Ali's death in 1492, one of his sons, Sonni Baru, became ruler...
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    Parakou (category Communes of Benin)
    Parakou is the largest city in northern Benin, and the third-largest city in the country, with an estimated population of around 206,667 people, and capital...
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    Donga is one of the twelve departments of Benin; its capital is Djougou, the fourth largest city in the country. The department of Donga was created in...
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    Natitingou (category Communes of Benin)
    many areas of Benin, is home to a constituent monarchy. The town was founded by the Waama ethnic groups but is populated with Ditammari, Dendi, Nateni, Fulani...
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    Bariba people (category Languages of Benin)
    inhabitants of Borgou and Alibori Departments, Benin, and cofounders of the Borgu kingdom of what is now northeast Benin and west-central Nigeria. In Nigeria,...
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    Songhai people (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    subgroup within the broader ethnic Ayneha community. Zarma people Songhaiborai Dendi people Wogo people Kurtey people Igdalen people Ingalkoyyu people Arma people...
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