Endangered Languages Project - Chaari

Chaari

^{[aka Chari, Caari, Cààrí]}

Classification: Afro-Asiatic

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Chari, Caari, Cààrí, Danshe, Danche
CLASSIFICATION		Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, West Chadic
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Danshe Chaari
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Information from: “Les Zaars et leurs voisins” (639-657) . Bernard Caron (2005) , Henry Tourneux and Noé Woïn ·

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~500
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"Si les Polci et les Zoɗi sont relativement nombreux (environ 50 000) les autres locuteurs avoisinent les 500 pour les lectes encore vivaces (Boto, Zaranda, Dir, Baraza, Geji, Zakshi, Chari), moins de dix pour certaines langues moribondes (Luri, Zumbul), alors que les langues zeem (= tulai) et lushi sont mortes."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "Tous les locuteurs de la région, excepté peut-être les femmes âgées de certains villages isolés, sont bilingues haoussa-langue maternelle."

PLACES: Bauchi State, Nigeria

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: "le sud de l’état de Bauchi, au nord du Nigeria"

PLACES: Bauchi State, Nigeria

Dormant

MORE ON VITALITY

"Zeem/Tule/Danshe - These languages are probably extinct (Caron p.c. 2005)"

PLACES: Toro Local Government Area, Bauchi State, Nigeria

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: "Spoken in Bauchi State, Toro LGA"

MORE ON VITALITY

“...Cààrí is the only surviving language of the Zeem subgroup, the other three (Zeem, Tule and Dokshi) being extinct..."

PLACES: Bauchi State, Nigeria

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: "the South of the Bauchi state (Nigeria)"

PLACES: Bauchi State, Nigeria

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: “The Dyarim say that their language is closest to Danshe, which would be logical, as the Danshe are another Chadic group on the edge of Izere territory…”

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~300
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"Danshe  [is] extinct (Caron 2005); Chaari [has a] ‘few hundred’ speakers (Caron 2005)."

PLACES: Toro Local Government Area, Bauchi State, Nigeria

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LOCATION INFORMATION

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10.05, 9.283333

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Information from: “Tonal Inversion in Geji and Pelu” . Bernard Caron (2011)