Tondi Songway Kiini is a variety of Southern Songhai spoken in several villages in the area of Kikara,

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, about 120 km west of

Hombori Hombori is a small town and rural commune in the Cercle of Douentza in the Mopti Region of Mali. The commune contains 25 villages and in the 2009 census had a population of 23,099. The town lies just to the north of the Hombori Tondo mesa on th ...

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documented the existence of Tondi Songway Kiini in 1998.

References

Jeffrey Heath Jeffrey Heath (born November 29, 1949) is Professor of Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Arabic and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Michigan, US. He is known particularly for his work in historical linguistics and for his extensive ...

, 2005. ''Tondi Songway Kiini: Reference Grammar and TSK–English–French Dictionary'' Songhay languages Languages of Mali {{ns-lang-stub