Zari
RegionBauchi State, Plateau State
Ethnicity20,700 (2000)[1]
Extinct2000[1]
Dialects
  • Zakshi (Zaksa)
  • Boto (Boot, Bibot)
  • Zari (Kopti, Kwapm)
Language codes
ISO 639-3zaz
Glottologzari1242
ELP

Zari (Zariwa) is a Chadic dialect cluster of Nigeria. Blench (2019) lists varieties as Zari, Zakshi, and Boto.[2]

Although there is an ethnic population of about 20,000, the last speaker had already died by 2000 (Campbell and Belew 2018).

References

  1. 1 2 Zari at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.


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