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Preferred term

khqKoyra Chiini  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Koyra Chiini (, literally "town language"), or Western Songhay, is a variety of Songhai in Mali, spoken by about 200,000 people (as of 1999) along the Niger River in Timbuktu and upriver from it in the towns of Diré, Tonka, Goundam, and Niafunké, as well as in the Saharan town of Araouane to its north. In this area, Koyra Chiini is the dominant language and the lingua franca, although minorities speaking Hassaniya Arabic, Tamashek, and Fulani are found. Djenné Chiini , the Songhai variety spoken in Djenné, is mutually comprehensible, but has noticeable differences with Koyra Chiini proper - in particular, two extra vowels ( and ) and syntactic differences related to focalization. East of Timbuktu, Koyra Chiini gives way relatively abruptly to another Songhai language, Koyraboro Senni.

Entry terms

  • Koyra Chiini Songhay
  • Songhay, Koyra Chiini

ISO 639-3 code

  • khq

nearly same as

In other languages

  • koyra chiini

    Catalan

  • koyra chiini

    Croatian

  • koyra-chiini

    Danish

  • Koyra Chiini

    Dutch

  • koyra chiini

    Estonian

  • koyra chiini

    Finnish

  • songhay

    French

  • Koyra Chiini

    German

  • Κόιρα Τσίνι

    Greek

  • קוירה צ'יני

    Hebrew

  • kojra-csíni

    Hungarian

  • Koyra Chiini

    Indonesian

  • koyra chiini

    Italian

  • コイラ・チーニ語

    Japanese

  • 코이라 친니어

    Korean

  • Koyra ciini

    Koyra Chiini

  • ຄອຍຣາຊິນີ

    Lao

  • koiračiinī

    Latvian

  • koyra čini

    Lithuanian

  • којра чиини

    Macedonian

  • koyra chiini

    Norwegian Bokmål

  • Lenga Songhai Koyra Chiini

    Piedmontese

  • koyra chini

    Polish

  • koyra chiini

    Portuguese

  • koyra chiini

    Romanian

  • койра чиини

    Russian

  • západná songhajčina

    Slovak

  • koyra chiini

    Spanish

  • Timbuktu-songhoy

    Swedish

  • โคย์ราชีนี

    Thai

  • Koyra Chiini

    Turkish

  • койра чіїні

    Ukrainian

  • Tiếng Koyra Chiini

    Vietnamese

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/khq

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