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Ngizim language

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{{Short description|Chadic language spoken in Nigeria}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Ngizim

|states=Nigeria

|region=Yobe State

|speakers=80,000

|date=1993

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Afro-Asiatic

|fam2=Chadic

|fam3=West Chadic

|fam4=Bade–Warji

|fam5=Bade (B.1)

|iso3=ngi

|glotto=ngiz1242

|glottorefname=Ngizim

}}

Ngizim (also known as Ngizmawa, Ngezzim, Ngódṣin) is a Chadic language spoken by the Ngizim people in Yobe State, Nigeria."Ethnologue Report: Ngizim". www.ethnologue.com.

"Yobe Language Research Project". www.humnet.ucla.edu.

A Sudanic Chronicle: The Borno expeditions of Idris Alauma (1564–1576), pp. 122 and 155

Palmer, H. R. Sudanese Memoirs. p. 32.

"Yobe Ngizims and their values". Nigeria Tribune. Nigeria. 20 July 2007.

Palmer, H. R. History of the first twelve years of the reign of Mai Idris Alooma of Bornu (1571–1583), by his Imam Ahmed Bin Furtua. p. 4.

Hoghen, S. J.; Kirk-Greene, A. H. M. Emirates of Northern Nigeria. p. 363.

Pataskum Emirate Palace Museum

Writing System

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|+ Ngizim alphabet{{sfn| Adamu | Potiskum | 2009 | p=vi }}

scope = "row" | Uppercase

| Ǝ || A || B || Ɓ || C

| D || Ɗ || E || F || G

| H || I || J || K || L

scope = "row" | Lowercase

| ǝ || a || b || ɓ || c

| d || ɗ || e || f || g

| h || i || j || k || l

scope = "row" | Uppercase

| M || N || O || P || R

| R̃ || S || T || U || V

| W || Y || ʼY

| colspan=2 | Z

scope = "row" | Lowercase

| m || n || o || p || r

| r̃ || s || t || u || v

| w || y || ʼy

| colspan=2 | z

The digraphs dl, sh, tl, zh are also used.

Notes

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Further reading

  • Mohammed Alhaji Adamu, Usman Babayo Garba Potiskum, 2009, [http://aflang.humnet.ucla.edu/Yobe/Dictionaries/Ngizim_english_hausa_2009.pdf Ngizim–English–Hausa Dictionary], Yobe Language Research Project.
  • Russell G. Schuh. 1972. "Aspects of Ngizim Syntax," University of California, Los Angeles PhD dissertation.
  • Russell G. Schuh. 1977. "Bade/Ngizim determiner system," Afroasiatic Linguistics 4:1-74.
  • Russell G. Schuh. 1981. A Dictionary of Ngizim. University of California Publications in Linguistics 99. Berkeley: University of California Press.

External links

  • [http://aflang.linguistics.ucla.edu/Yobe/Dictionaries/Ngizim_english_2009.pdf English-Ngizim Wordlist]
  • [http://aflang.linguistics.ucla.edu/Ngizim/ngizim.html Descriptive papers on Ngizim from UCLA]

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