Sinyar language

Sinyar
	Shemya
Native to	Chad
Ethnicity	Sinyar
Native speakers	12,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Central Sudanic ? (possibly with Fongoro) Sinyar; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sys
Glottolog	siny1243[2]

Shemya is the language of the Sinyar people. It is a Central Sudanic language spoken in Chad and formerly in Darfur, Sudan. It is variously spelled Shamya, Shamyan, Shemya, Sinya, and known as Symiarta, Taar Shamyan, Zimirra.

Dimmendaal leaves it as a language isolate. Blench groups it with Formona.

References

↑ Sinyar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sinyar". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] Sinyar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sinyar". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.