Zari language

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Zari
RegionBauchi State, Plateau State
Ethnicity20,700 (2000)[1]
Extinct2000[1]
Dialects
  • Zakshi (Zaksa)
  • Boto (Boot, Bibot)
  • Zari (Kopti, Kwapm)
Language codes
ISO 639-3zaz
Glottologzari1242

Zari (Zariwa) is a Chadic dialect cluster of Nigeria. Blench (2019) lists varieties as Zari, Zakshi, and Boto.[2] Although there is an ethnic population of about 20,000, the last speaker had already died by 2000 (Campbell and Belew 2018).

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Zari at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.