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    Koyraboro Senni (Koroboro Senni, Koyra Senni or Gao Senni) is a member of the Songhay languages of Mali and is spoken by some 400,000 people along the...
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    capital city, Niamey. Koyraboro Senni, with 400,000 speakers, is the language of the town of Gao, the seat of the old Songhai Empire. Koyra Chiini is...
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    of Koyraboro Senni spoken in Gao is unintelligible to speakers of the Zarma dialect of Niger, according to at least one report. The Songhay languages are...
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    Humburi Senni, or Central Songhay, is a variety of Southern Songhai spoken in the Hombori region, straddling the Burkina–Mali border. Table below illustrates...
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    gives way relatively abruptly to another Songhay language, Koyraboro Senni. Unlike most Songhai languages, Koyra Chiini has no phonemic tones and has subject–verb–object...
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  • Can a Language Be?" in ed. Derek Nurse, Historical Language Contact in Africa, Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. Heath, Jeffrey. 1999. A grammar of Koyraboro (Koroboro)...
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  • language of Niger. The languages are, approximately from upstream to downstream: Koyra Chiini Humburi Senni Tondi Kiini Koyraboro Senni Songhoyboro Ciine Zarma...
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    differences. Additionally, in Mali, they are recognized as the Koyraboro. The Songhai originally were the descendants and partisans of the Sonni dynasty...
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    Songhay language used as a trade language across northern Benin (along the Niger River. It forms a dialect cluster with Zarma and Koyraboro Senni but it...
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    interchangeably when referring to their language. Songhoyboro Ciine is not, however, intelligible with Koyraboro Senni Songhai dialect of Gao in Mali. Some use...
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    [citation needed] In countries where no other Songhai languages are spoken, Zarma is also simply referred to as Songhai or Songhay.[citation needed] Outside Niger...
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    Gao (category Songhai Empire)
    terrorist attack in Malian history. The population of Gao mostly speak Koyraboro Senni but includes many ethnicities, including the Bozo (traditionally nomadic...
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  • This is a list of ISO 639-3 language codes starting with S. Index | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u |...
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    Tondi Songway Kiini is a variety of Southern Songhai spoken in several villages in the area of Kikara, Mali, about 120 km west of Hombori. Westerners...
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