East Chadic languages

East Chadic
Geographic
distribution
southern Chad and northern Cameroon
Linguistic classificationAfro-Asiatic
Subdivisions
  • East Chadic A
  • East Chadic B
Language codes
Glottologeast2632
East Chadic per Newman (1977)

The three dozen East Chadic languages of the Chadic family are spoken in Chad and Cameroon.[1]

Speakers of various East Chadic languages are locally known as Hadjarai peoples.[2][3] The largest East Chadic language is Nancere.[4]

  1. ^ "Glottolog 4.7 – East Chadic". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  2. ^ Olson, James Stuart (1996). The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Press. p. 213. ISBN 0-313-27918-7.
  3. ^ Chapelle, Jean (1981). Le Peuple Tchadien: ses racines et sa vie quotidienne (in French). L'Harmattan. pp. 178–179. ISBN 2-85802-169-4.
  4. ^ Peust, Carsten (2018). "The subgrouping of East Chadic". Folia Orientalia (55). doi:10.24425/for.2018.124686.