Zari language
(Redirected from Zakshi language)
| Zari | |
|---|---|
| Region | Bauchi State, Plateau State |
| Ethnicity | 20,700 (2000)[1] |
| Extinct | 2000[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zaz |
| Glottolog | zari1242 |
| ELP | Zari |
Zari (Zariwa) is a Chadic dialect cluster of Nigeria. Blench (2019) lists varieties as Zari, Zakshi, and Boto.[2]
Although there is an ethnic population of about 20,000, the last speaker had already died by 2000 (Campbell and Belew 2018).
References
[edit]- ^ a b Zari at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
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