East Chadic


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Noun1.East Chadic - a group of Chadic languages spoken in Chad
Sibine, Somrai - a Chadic language spoken in Chad
Nancere - a Chadic language spoken in Chad
Kera - a Chadic language spoken in Chad
Dangaleat, Dangla - a Chadic language spoken in Chad; uses seven vowels plus differences in vowel length
Mokulu - a Chadic language spoken in Chad
Sokoro - a Chadic language spoken in Chad
Chadic, Chadic language, Chad - 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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East Chadic *diy- and *daw- is used for 'to say' and 'to cry for help'.
'Where does speech come from?' a historical linguistic answer
267-84), attempts to point out what he considers to be a typological correspondence between some East Chadic (plus Hausa) conjugational verb paradigms and Cushitic verbal morphology (he goes as far as postulating a Chado-Cushitic branch within his "Semitohamitic"!).
Current Progress in Chadic Linguistics: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chadic Linguistics, Boulder, Colorado, 1-2 May, 1987

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