Karai-karai
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Karai-karai (Francophonic spelling: Karekare, Kerrikerri, Ajami: كاراي-كاراي) is a language spoken in West Africa, most prominently North eastern Nigeria. The number of speakers of Karai-karai is estimated between 1,500,000 and 1,800,000 million, primarily spoken by the ethnic Karai-Karai people. It is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken principally in Nigeria with communities in Bauchi State, Yobe State, Gombe State and other parts of Nigeria. Many Karai-karai words share a common origin with the Northwest Semitic languages of Hebrew and Arabic. The Karai-karai language is most closely related to
Key facts
- Language.name
- Karai-karai
- Language.nativename
- كاراي-كاراي (Ajami)
- Language.states
- Nigeria
- Language.region
- Bauchi State, Yobe State, Gombe State
- Language.ethnicity
- Karai-Karai
- Language.speakers
- million
- Language.date
- 2010
- Language.ref
- e26
- Language.familycolor
- Afro-Asiatic
- Language.fam2
- Chadic
- Language.fam3
- West Chadic
- Language.fam4
- Bole–Angas
- Language.fam5
- Bole–Tangale (A.2)
- Language.fam6
- Bole (North)
- Language.script
- Latin (Karai-karai alphabet)Arabic script (formerly)
- Language.iso3
- kai
- Language.glotto
- kare1348
- Language.glottorefname
- Karai-karai
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Bole–Tangale
- Country
- Nigeria
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- topic's main category
- Category:Karekare language
- writing system
- Latin script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 1800000
- linguistic typology
- tonal language
- indigenous to
- Kano State
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Distribution
- Classification
- Bole-Tangale languages
- Literary Karai-karai
- Writing system
- Alphabets
- Orthography
- Vowels
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Works cited
Karai-karai (Francophonic spelling: Karekare, Kerrikerri, Ajami: كاراي-كاراي) is a language spoken in West Africa, most prominently North eastern Nigeria. The number of speakers of Karai-karai is estimated between 1,500,000 and 1,800,000 million, primarily spoken by the ethnic Karai-Karai people. It is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken principally in Nigeria with communities in Bauchi State, Yobe State, Gombe State and other parts of Nigeria. Many Karai-karai words share a common origin with the Northwest Semitic languages of Hebrew and Arabic. The Karai-karai language is most closely related to the Ngamo and Bole languages (spoken in north eastern Nigeria) which are both considered derivatives of the Karai-karai language.
== Distribution == Karai-karai (and its dialects) is a well-spoken language in the following northern Nigerian states: Bauchi State Yobe State Borno State Gombe State Taraba State Adamawa State Jigawa State Kano State Nasarawa State
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