Endangered Languages Project - Dir

Dir

^{[aka Diir, Dììr, Diri, Dra, Baram Dutse]}

Classification: Afro-Asiatic

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Diir, Dììr, Diri, Dra, Baram Dutse
CLASSIFICATION		Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, West Chadic
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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)..."

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"

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<1,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"less than 1,000 speakers"

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"severely endangered"

PLACES: Bauchi State, Nigeria

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: "the south of Bauchi State (Nigeria)"

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
100-999
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"a few hundred (Caron 2005)"

PLACES: Bauchi and Toro Local Government Areas, Bauchi State, Nigeria

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: "Bauchi State, Bauchi and Toro LGAs"

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~1,050
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Dir - about 800; Baram Dutse - about 250

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "Hausa is used as the trade language."

PLACES: Dir and Baram Dutse villages, Bauchi Local Government Area, Bauchi State, Nigeria

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: “Dir is a small tribe of about 800 people found in Bauchi Local Government of Bauchi State... No Dir person is living outside the village... The entire village migrated to the present site of Dir village because water was even scarcer in the former place... The Baram-Dutse live in Bauchi LGA of Bauchi State. All of them (about 250), live in their village."

PLACES: Bauchi State, Nigeria

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<600
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"[Their population is] less than 600."

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

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

10.208333, 9.708333

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