From World Afropedia
Chadic | |
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Geographic distribution: | Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon |
Linguistic classification: | Negro-Egyptian
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ISO 639-5: | cdc |
The Chadic languages constitute a language family of perhaps 150 languages spoken across northern Nigeria, southern Niger, southern Chad, Central African Republic and nortern Cameroon, belonging to the Afroasiatic phylum. The most widely spoken Chadic language is Hausa, a lingua franca of much of inland West Afrika.