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Preferred term

zagZaghawa  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Zaghawa language is a Saharan language spoken by the Zaghawa people of eastern central Chad (in the Sahel) and northwestern Sudan (Darfur). The people who speak this language call it Beria, from Beri, the endonym of the Zaghawa people, and "a," Zaghawa for mouth. It has been estimated that there are between 75,000 to 350,000 Zaghawa language speakers who primarily live in Chad and the Darfur region of Sudan.

Entry terms

  • Zaghawa language

ISO 639-3 code

  • zag

Notation

  • zag

In other languages

  • Zaghawa

    German

URI

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

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