The three dozen East Chadic languages of the Chadic family are spoken in

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. Speakers of various East Chadic languages are locally known as

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. The largest East Chadic language is Nancere.

Languages

The branches of East Chadic go either by names or by letters and numbers in an outline format. The East Chadic B classification follows that of Lovestrand (2012). *East Chadic A **Sibine (A.1.1): Mire, Ndam, Somrai, Tumak, Motun, Mawer **Miltu (A.1.2): Boor, Gadang, Miltu, Sarua **Nancere (A.2.1):Languages in both the Nancere and Gabri branches go by the names of Kimre and Gabri. The two branches together are sometimes also called Gabri. Nancere, Kimré, Lele **Gabri (A.2.2): Gabri, Kabalai, Tobanga **Kwang (A.3): Kwang, Kera *East Chadic B **B.1 ***Dangla (B.1.1): Bidiyo (Bidiya), Dangaléat (Dangla),

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, Jonkor Bourmataguil, Mabire, Migaama, Mogum (Jegu), Toram ***Mubi (B.1.2): Mubi,

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, Masmaje, Zirenkel (Zerenkel) ***? '' Kujargé'' (B.1.3) **'' Mokilko'' (Mukulu, Gergiko) (B.2) **Sokoro (B.3): Saba, Sokoro, Tamki, Mawa, Ubi ** Barein (Baraïn) (B.4, including the Jalking or Jelkung dialect) Peust (2018), however, has a somewhat different phylogenetic classification for East Chadic. The most striking change is the repositioning of Mokilko (B.2) from East Chadic B to East Chadic A, where it now constitutes the first branch to separate, followed by Lele-Nancere (A.2.1). Within East Chadic B, he treats the Mubi group (B.1.2) as the first primary branching, with all the rest forming a subgroup divided between Dangla (B.1.1) in the north and Barain plus Sokoro (B.3 and B.4) in the south. East Chadic A is distributed primarily in Tandjilé and neighbouring regions. East Chadic B is distributed primarily in Guéra and neighbouring regions.

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and Office National de Développement Rural (ONDR). 2016.
Atlas de la vulnérabilité dans le Guera. Première partie: synthèse regional
'. 2nd edition (updated from 2013 edition). PASISAT (Projet d'Appui à l'Amélioration du Système d'Information sur la Sécurité Alimentaire au Tchad).

Numerals

Comparison of numerals in individual languages:

References

{{East Chadic languages Chadic languages Languages of Chad