Tondi Songway Kiini

Tondi Songway Kiini is a variety of Southern Songhai spoken in several villages in the area of Kikara, Mali, about 120 km west of Hombori. Westerners documented the existence of Tondi Songway Kiini in 1998.

Tondi Songway Kiini
Native toMali
Regionnear Kikara
Native speakers
3,000 (1998)[1]
Nilo-Saharan?
Language codes
ISO 639-3tst
Glottologtond1249[2]
Location of Songhay languages[3]

Northwest Songhay:

  Korandje
  Koyra Chiini
  Tadaksahak
  Tasawaq
  Tagdal

Eastern Songhay:

  Tondi Songway Kiini
  Humburi Senni
  Koyraboro Senni
  Zarma language
  Dendi

References
  1. Tondi Songway Kiini at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tondi Songway Kiini". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. This map is based on classification from Glottolog and data from Ethnologue.
  • Jeffrey Heath, 2005. Tondi Songway Kiini: Reference Grammar and TSK–English–French Dictionary


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