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
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Vinony's link graph records 285 inbound references to Karai-karai, and connects out to Afroasiatic, Bole–Tangale and Piya.
Vinony files it under Language articles citing Ethnologue 26, Languages of Nigeria and West Chadic languages.
Vinony links it to 12 Wikipedia language editions.
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
via Wikipedia infobox
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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karai-karai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.