Chadian Arabic
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Chadian Arabic | ||
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Spoken in: | Chad, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan | |
Total speakers: | 986,190 | |
Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic South Central Semitic Arabic Chadian Arabic |
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Writing system: | Arabic alphabet | |
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Official language in: | none | |
Regulated by: | none | |
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ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | – | |
ISO 639-3: | shu | |
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Chadian Arabic or Shuwa Arabic (also known as Arabe Choa, Shua Arabic, Shua, Chowa, Chad Arabic, Suwa, L'arabe du Tchad, Chadic Arabic, Baggara) is the variety of Arabic spoken primarily in Chad. It is the first language for nearly one million people in Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger, and Sudan but also serves as a lingua franca in much of the region. [1]
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- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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