Meaning | A family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa. |
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Synonyms | Chad, Chadic |
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Narrower | Biu-Mandara | A group of Chadic languages spoken in the border area between Cameroon and Nigeria south of Lake Chad |
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East Chadic | A group of Chadic languages spoken in Chad |
Masa | An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages |
West Chadic | A group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria |
Broader | Afroasiatic, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic language, Afrasian, Afrasian language, Hamito-Semitic | A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa |
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Spanish | lengua chádica |
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