Zeem language

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Zeem
Region Bauchi State
Native speakers
400  (2003)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Dialects
Zeem (†)
Caari
Danshe (†)
Lushi (?)
Dyarim
Tule (†)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zua

Zeem, or Chaari, is an endangered Chadic dialect cluster of Nigeria, whose speakers are shifting to Hausa.[2]

Notes

  1. Zeem reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  2. Newman, Paul (1990). Nominal and verbal plurality in Chadic. Walter de Gruyter. p. 3. ISBN 978-90-6765-499-9. Retrieved 2009-07-28. 


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