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:

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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