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shuChadian Arabic  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Chadian Arabic (also known as Western Sudanic Arabic, Shuwa/Shua/Suwa Arabic (French: Arabe Choa/Chowa), L'arabe du Tchad) is one of the regional colloquial Arabic languages. "Shuwa Arabic" properly refers only to its Nigerian dialects, and even then, it is a term not used by the speakers themselves. Its territory, which touches Lake Chad, is an east-to-west oval in the Sahel, about 1400 miles long (12 to 20 degrees east latitude) by 300 miles north-to-south (between 10 and 14 degrees north latitude). It is the first language for over one million people in Chad, Sudan, Cameroon, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, and Niger and serves as a lingua franca in much of the region. It is spoken both by town dwellers and by cattle herding nomads. In most of its range, it is not the only local language and often not among the major local languages.

Entry terms

  • Arabic, Chadian

ISO 639-3 code

  • shu

Notation

  • shu

In other languages

  • arabe tchadien

    French

  • Arabe tchadien
  • Tschadisch-Arabisch

    German

  • chadian arabic

    Italian

  • árabe do Chade

    Portuguese

  • Árabe chadiano
  • árabe chadiano

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/shu

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