Zari (Zariwa) is a
Chadic
The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken in parts of the Sahel. They include 150 languages spoken across northern Nigeria, southern Niger, southern Chad, the Central African Republic, and northern Cam ...
dialect cluster
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varie ...
of
Nigeria. Blench (2019) lists varieties as Zari, Zakshi, and Boto.
Although there is an ethnic population of about 20,000, the last speaker had already died by 2000 (Campbell and Belew 2018).
References
Chadic languages
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