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- Songhay_languages abstract "The Songhay or Songhai languages (pronounced [soŋaj], or [soŋoj] are a group of closely related languages/dialects centered on the middle stretches of the Niger River in the west African states of Mali, Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso, and Nigeria. In particular, they are spoken in the cities of Timbuktu and Gao. They have been widely used as a lingua franca in that region ever since the era of the Songhai Empire. In Mali, the government has officially adopted the dialect of Gao (east of Timbuktu) as the dialect to be used as a medium of primary education.As regards interintelligibility of Songhay languages, the dialect of Koyraboro Senni spoken in Gao is unintelligible to speakers of the Zarma dialect of Niger, according to the Ethnologue.For linguists, a major point of interest in the Songhay languages has been the difficulty of determining their genetic affiliation; they are commonly taken to be Nilo-Saharan, as defined by Greenberg in 1963, but this classification remains controversial. Dimmendaal (2008) believes that for now it is best considered an independent language family.The name Songhay is historically neither an ethnic nor a linguistic designation, but a name for the ruling caste of the Songhai Empire. Under the influence of French language usage, speakers in Mali have increasingly been adopting it as an ethnic self-designation; however, other Songhay-speaking groups identify themselves with other ethnic terms, such as Zarma (Djerma) or Isawaghen.A few precolonial poems and letters composed in Songhay and written in the Arabic alphabet are extant in Timbuktu. However, Songhay is currently written in the Latin script.".
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- Songhay_languages wikiPageExternalLink books.html.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageExternalLink www.djerma.nl.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageExternalLink show_map.asp?name=ML.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageExternalLink show_map.asp?name=NE.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageExternalLink SonghaiZarma.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageExternalLink abstract.asp?ref=2002-005.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageExternalLink abstract.asp?ref=2003-003.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageExternalLink northern-songhay.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageID "505175".
- Songhay_languages wikiPageLength "13291".
- Songhay_languages wikiPageOutDegree "88".
- Songhay_languages wikiPageRevisionID "671576980".
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink African_languages.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Algeria.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Arabic.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Arabic_language.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Benin.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Berber_languages.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Burkina_Faso.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Benin.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Mali.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Niger.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Category:Songhay_languages.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Causative.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Cognate.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Creole_language.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Dialect.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Diedrich_Hermann_Westermann.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Djerma.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink French_language.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Gao.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Gur_languages.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Institut_Fondamental_dAfrique_Noire.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Isawaghen.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Joseph_Greenberg.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Kanuri_language.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Koyra_Chiini_language.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Koyraboro_Senni.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Language.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Languages_of_Africa.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Latin_script.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Lingua_franca.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Linguist.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Linguistic_typology.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Linguistics.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Lionel_Bender_(linguist).
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Liver.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Loanword.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink M._Lionel_Bender.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Maba_language.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Mali.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Mande_languages.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Maurice_Delafosse.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Mixed_language.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Morphology_(linguistics).
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Niamey.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Niger.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Niger_River.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Nigeria.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Nilo-Saharan_languages.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Northern_Songhay_languages.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pronoun.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Qadi.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Nicolaï.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Roger_Blench.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Sahara.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Saharan_languages.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Singulative_number.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Songhai_Empire.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Southern_Songhay_languages.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Subject–object–verb.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Subject–verb–object.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Tasawaq_language.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Teso_language.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Timbuktu.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Tone_(linguistics).
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Violin.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink West_Africa.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Zaghawa_language.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Zarma_language.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Zarma_people.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:fr:Catégorie:songhaï_koyraboro_senni.
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLinkText " language".
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLinkText "Koyraboro Senni Songhay language".
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLinkText "Songhai".
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLinkText "Songhay language".
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLinkText "Songhay languages".
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLinkText "Songhay words".
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLinkText "Songhay".
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLinkText "Sonrai".
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLinkText "Western Songhay".
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLinkText "Zarma & Songhai".
- Songhay_languages wikiPageWikiLinkText "Zarma/Songhai".
- Songhay_languages altname "Songhai".
- Songhay_languages child Northern_Songhay_languages.
- Songhay_languages child Southern_Songhay_languages.
- Songhay_languages date "August 2012".