Languages of Chad

Chad has two official languages, French and Modern Standard Arabic, and over 120 indigenous languages. A vernacular version of Arabic, Chadian Arabic, is the lingua franca and the language of business, spoken by 40-60% of the population.[1] The two official languages, have fewer speakers than Chadian Arabic, with French being spoken by over 1.6 million people, mostly concentrated in the capital of N’Djamena, whilst Standard Arabic is spoken by around 615,000 speakers.[2] . Chad submitted an application to join the Arab League as a member state on 25 March 2014, which is still pending.[3]

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Chadian Sign Language is actually Nigerian Sign Language, a dialect of American Sign Language; Andrew Foster introduced ASL in the 1960s, and Chadian teachers for the deaf train in Nigeria.

Niger–Congo languages

Nilo-Saharan languages

Afro-Asiatic languages

(Ethnologue lists 54 Chadic languages in Chad altogether, many of them small.)

Creole languages

Unclassified languages
  • Laal (749, SIL 2000)

Lul Language (Lul)

Löl Language (Löl)

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References
  1. https://www.graphicmaps.com/chad/languages
  2. https://www.graphicmaps.com/chad/languages
  3. Middle East Monitor: South Sudan and Chad apply to join the Arab League, 12 April 2014, retrieved 6 May 2017


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