WEST CHADIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does West Chadic mean? 

• WEST CHADIC (noun)
  The noun WEST CHADIC has 1 sense:

1. a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria; Hausa in the most important member

  Familiarity information: WEST CHADIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEST CHADIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria; Hausa in the most important member

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("West Chadic" is a kind of...):

Chad; Chadic; Chadic language (a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "West Chadic"):

Hausa; Haussa (the chief member of the Chadic family of Afroasiatic languages; widely used as a trading language)

Bolanci; Bole; Angas (a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa)

Bokkos; Daffo; Ron; Bade; Warji; Sayanci; Zaar (a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria)