Saharan languages

Saharan
Geographic
distribution		 Chad, Nigeria, Niger, Sudan, Cameroon
Linguistic classification Nilo-Saharan?
  • Saharan
Subdivisions
  • Eastern Saharan
  • Western Saharan
Glottolog saha1256[1]
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Range of the Saharan languages (in orange)

The Saharan languages are a small family of languages spoken across parts of the eastern Sahara, extending from northwestern Darfur to southern Libya, north and central Chad, eastern Niger and northeastern Nigeria. Noted Saharan languages include Kanuri (4 million speakers, around Lake Chad in Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon), Daza (330,000 speakers, Chad), Teda (49,000 speakers, northern Chad), and Zaghawa (170,000 speakers, eastern Chad and Darfur). They are a part of the proposed Nilo-Saharan family.

Internal classification

Saharan 

 Eastern 

 Berti † (AKA Sagato;[2] extinct), Zaghawa (AKA Beria[2])

 
 Western 

 Kanuri 

 Kanuri (Bilma, Manga, Tumari, Central), Kanembu (Tarjumo)

 
 Tebu 

 Daza, Teda

 
 
 

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Saharan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. 1 2 http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Nilo-Saharan/General/Saharan%20Songhay%20branch.pdf
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