Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, spoken in west-central Africa and including Hausa.
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- adjective Belonging to a
language family spoken across northernNigeria ,Niger ,Chad ,Central African Republic andCameroon .
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- noun a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa
Etymologies
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Examples
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They speak the Hausa language, a member of the Chadic language group, itself a sub-group of the larger Afro-Asiatic language family.
Gender Sensitivity Among Nigerian Ethnic Group « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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Regardless of which one they were, they apparently derive from the ejective stops of Proto-Afro-Asiatic, the ancestral proto-parent of the Semitic, Egyptian, Chadic, Cushitic and Berber languages.
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Regardless of which one they were, they apparently derive from the ejective stops of Proto-Afro-Asiatic, the ancestral proto-parent of the Semitic, Egyptian, Chadic, Cushitic and Berber languages.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Then don't forget Bomhard's 1st person pronoun *ʔiya, supposedly proved by evidence from Chadic.
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Basing an Afro-Asiatic reconstruction solely on Chadic is bad practice known as "reaching".
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Then don't forget Bomhard's 1st person pronoun *ʔiya, supposedly proved by evidence from Chadic.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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Basing an Afro-Asiatic reconstruction solely on Chadic is bad practice known as "reaching".
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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For example, Chadic languages are spoken in Niger republic,
naijablog 2010
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Magana, Ron-Kulere meeting placeand one of the editors of Chadic Newsletter.
naijablog 2010
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You see, as noted above, these three language families are also quite closely related to Chadic (spoken mainly in Nigeria and Chad) and Cushitic (spoken around the Horn of Africa) - which means that 4 out of 5 branches of this family are native to Africa.
Jabal al-Lughat 2009
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