Dendi language
Dendi | |
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Dandawa | |
Region | northern Benin |
Native speakers | 32,000 (1995)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
ddn |
Glottolog |
dend1243 [2] |
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Dendi is a Songhay language used as a trade language across northern Benin (along the Niger River; Donga and Alibori provinces, e.g. Djougou, Kandi). It forms a dialect cluster with Zarma and Songhai proper, but is heavily influenced by Bariba.
Zendi has been described as a four-tone language.[4]
References
- ↑ Dendi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Dendi (Benin)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ This map is based on classification from Glottolog and data from Ethnologue.
- ↑ Joe Salmons, Accentual change and language contact: Comparative survey and a case study of early Northern Europe
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