| East Chadic | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | southern Chad and northern Cameroon |
| Linguistic classification | Afro-Asiatic
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| Subdivisions |
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| Glottolog | east2632 |
 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]
- ^ "Glottolog 4.7 – East Chadic". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
- ^ Olson, James Stuart (1996). The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Press. p. 213. ISBN 0-313-27918-7.
- ^ Chapelle, Jean (1981). Le Peuple Tchadien: ses racines et sa vie quotidienne (in French). L'Harmattan. pp. 178–179. ISBN 2-85802-169-4.
- ^ Peust, Carsten (2018). "The subgrouping of East Chadic". Folia Orientalia (55). doi:10.24425/for.2018.124686.