Zaghawa language

Zaghawa
Beṛia
Native toChad, Sudan
Regionnortheastern Chad, northwestern Sudan
EthnicityZaghawa, Awlad Mana
Native speakers
450,000 (2019–2022)[1]
Dialects
Zaghawa alphabet (proposed)
Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3zag
Glottologzagh1240
Linguasphere02-CAA-aa
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Zaghawa is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Zaghawa people of east-central Chad (in the Sahel) and northwestern Sudan (Darfur). The people who speak this language call it Beria, from Beri, the endonym of the Zaghawa people, and a, Zaghawa for "mouth". It has been estimated that there are about 447,400 native speakers of the Zaghawa language, who primarily live in Chad and the Darfur region of Sudan. It is also spoken by a smaller number of people in Libya.

  1. ^ Zaghawa at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon