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Genetic affiliation
22 related topics
Overview
42 related topics
Varieties
6 related topics
Grammar
3 related topics
Key facts & relationships
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- Early form
- Proto-Songhay language
- Ethnicity
- Songhai
- Geographic distribution
- Niger River valley (Mali, Niger, Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Nigeria); scattered oases (Niger, Mali, Algeria)
- Glottolog
- song1307
- ISO 639-2 / 5
- son
- Linguistic classification
- Songhay
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Overview
- Languages Language
- Dialects Dialect
- Niger River
- West African West Africa
- Mali
- Niger
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Nigeria
- Timbuktu
- Djenné
- Niamey
- Gao
- Tillaberi
- Dosso Dosso, Niger
- Parakou
- Kandi Kandi, Benin
- Natitingou
- Djougou
- Malanville
- Gorom-Gorom
- In-Gall
- Tabelbala
- Lingua franca
- Songhai Empire
- Mutual intelligibility
- Koyraboro Senni
- Zarma Zarma language
- Ethnologue
- Songhoyboro Ciine
Varieties
- Dendi Dendi language
- Koyra Chiini Koyra Chiini language
- Tadaksahak
- Berber Berber languages
- Sahara
- Mixed languages Mixed language
Genetic affiliation
- Diedrich Hermann Westermann
- Gur Gur languages
- Maurice Delafosse
- Mande Mande languages
- African languages
- Cognates Cognate
- Pronouns Pronoun
- Lionel Bender Lionel Bender (linguist)
- Singulative–plurative Singulative number
- Loanwords Loanword
- Nicolaï Robert Nicolaï
- Morphological Morphology (linguistics)
- Causative
- Typological Linguistic typology
- Creole language
- Liver
- Violin
- Qadi
- Zaghawa Zaghawa language
- Kanuri Kanuri language
- Maba Maba language
- Teso Teso language
Grammar
- Tonal Tone (linguistics)
- Subject–object–verb
- Subject-verb-object
Reconstruction of Proto-Songhay
- Proto-Songhay Proto-Songhay language
Bibliography
- Institut Français d'Afrique Noire (since renamed the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire) Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire
- Bender, M. Lionel M. Lionel Bender
Advanced semantic analysis
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.Songhay languages
Nodes83
Edges82
Triples47
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.024096
Components1
How this topic connects Entity context
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Songhay languages
Top relations
related to Varieties · 25
Songhay languages → Berber, Berber-influenced, Dendi, Djerma, Gao, Koyra Chiini, Koyraboro Senni, Mali, Niamey, Niger, Niger River, Northern, Northern Songhay, Others, Researchers, Sahara, Since, Songhai Empire, Songhay, Songhoyboro Ciine
related to External links · 13
Songhay languages → Culture DjermaMaps, Dictionary Songhai Koyraboro Senni, French, Jeffrey Heath, Mali, NigerNorthern Songhay, Songhai, Songhay, TadaksahakPanAfrican L10n, TadaksahakSome, Wictionaire, WordsRelative Clauses, ZarmaPublications
Subdivisions · 2
Songhay languages → Northern, Southern
Early form · 1
Songhay languages → Proto-Songhay language
Ethnicity · 1
Songhay languages → Songhai
Geographic distribution · 1
Songhay languages → Niger River valley (Mali, Niger, Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Nigeria); scattered oases (Niger, Mali, Algeria)
Glottolog · 1
Songhay languages → song1307
ISO 639-2 / 5 · 1
Songhay languages → son
Linguistic classification · 1
Songhay languages → Songhay
Proto-language · 1
Songhay languages → Proto-Songhay
Important terminology Word statistics
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Important terminology
songhay languages cf nilo-saharan niger zarma songhai language mali nicolaï de pp timbuktu gao saharan manding robert spoken koyraboro senni
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Songhay languages | Early form | Proto-Songhay language | 1.00 | infobox |
| Songhay languages | Ethnicity | Songhai | 1.00 | infobox |
| Songhay languages | Geographic distribution | Niger River valley (Mali, Niger, Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Nigeria); scattered oases (Niger, Mali, Algeria) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Songhay languages | Glottolog | song1307 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Songhay languages | ISO 639-2 / 5 | son | 1.00 | infobox |
| Songhay languages | Linguistic classification | Songhay | 1.00 | infobox |
| Songhay languages | Proto-language | Proto-Songhay | 1.00 | infobox |
| Songhay languages | Subdivisions | Northern | 1.00 | infobox |
| Songhay languages | Subdivisions | Southern | 1.00 | infobox |
| Songhay languages | related to External links | Wictionaire | 0.60 | section |
| Songhay languages | related to External links | Dictionary Songhai Koyraboro Senni | 0.60 | section |
| Songhay languages | related to External links | French | 0.60 | section |
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