Chadian Arabic
Variant of Arabic spoken in Chad / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chadian Arabic (Arabic: لهجة تشادية), also known as Shuwa Arabic,[lower-alpha 1] Western Sudanic Arabic, or West Sudanic Arabic (WSA),[2] is a variety of Arabic and the first language of 1.6 million people,[3] both town dwellers and nomadic cattle herders. Most of its speakers live in central and southern Chad. Its range is an east-to-west oval in the Sahel. Nearly all of this territory is within Chad and Sudan. It is also spoken elsewhere in the vicinity of Lake Chad in the countries of Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger. Finally, it is spoken in slivers of the Central African Republic. In addition, this language serves as a lingua franca in much of the region. In most of its range, it is one of several local languages and often not among the major ones.
Chadian Arabic | |
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Shuwa | |
لهجة تشادية | |
Native to | Chad, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria[1] |
Speakers | L1: 2.3 million (2005–2023)[1] L2: 70,000 (2013)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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Arabic alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | shu |
Glottolog | chad1249 |
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