Hausa–Gwandara languages

The Hausa–Gwandara languages (also known as the A.1 West Chadic languages) of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken principally in Niger and Nigeria. They include Gwandara and Hausa, the most populous Chadic language and a major language of West Africa.

Hausa–Gwandara
A.1 West Chadic
Geographic
distribution
Nigeria and Niger
Linguistic classificationAfro-Asiatic
Glottologwest2718[1]
West Chadic per Newman (1977)

Languages

The two Hausa–Gwandara languages are:

gollark: You're just bad at reminding.
gollark: I trust myself, so by symmetry you trust me.
gollark: ↑ palaiologos
gollark: https://www.centauri-dreams.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/STScI-01FTVHXN640PZ8V0H36DMZ4G9A.jpg
gollark: Is this after the EXCULPATED COUNTERBALANCES incident?

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "West Chadic A.1". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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