Ngeté-Herdé, also known as Lamé, is an

Afro-Asiatic The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic su ...

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 Chad. Varieties are: *Dzəpaw, or Lamé *Ngeté (Nguetté), or Sorga-Ngeté *Herdé (He’dé), or Heɗe-RongBlench, 2006
The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List
(ms) ''Zime'' is a generic name.

References

Chadic languages Languages of Chad {{Chadic-lang-stub