Zarma language

Spoken in

• Nilo-Saharan Songhai Southern Songhai Zarma

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Ssa

Dje

Zarma (also called Dyerma, Dyarma, Dyabarma, Adzerma, Djerma, Zabarma, Zarbarma, Zarmaci in Niger) is a West African language of the Zarma with the area of ​​origin in southwestern Niger.

It belongs to the group of Songhai languages. Smaller groups of Zarma speakers living in Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Ghana.

A dialect is Kaado. In Niger dialects exhibit from the Dendi and other Songhai languages ​​on similarities to the Zarma.

Words of basic vocabulary