Songhay

Songhay is spoken by appr. 700.000 people along the middle and upper regions of the Niger river. The important languages are: Koyra Chiini (between Timbuktu and Niafunké), Koroboro Senni (around the district capital of Gao) and Dendi (along the borders of Benin, Niger, Nigeria and Ghana). Songhay is a branch of the Nilo Saharan language family and contains neither gender nor nominal classes.

Robert Nicolaï: La force des choses ou l’épreuve ‘nilo-saharienne’. Questions sur les reconstructions archéologiques et l’évolution des langues
SUGIA Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika – Supplement Volume 13

Christopher Ehret: A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan
SUGIA Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika – Supplement Volume 4

Jeffrey Heath: A Grammar of Koyraboro (Koroboro) Senni – The Songhay of Gao, Mali
Westafrikanische Studien Volume 19

Jeffrey Heath: Texts in Koyra Chiini – Songhay of Timbuktu, Mali
Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen Volume 5

Jeffrey Heath: Texts in Koroboro Senni – Songhay of Gao, Mali
Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen Volume 6

Petr Zima: Lexique Dendi (Songhay) (Djougou, Bénin). Avec un Index Français - Dendi
Westafrikanische Studien Volume 4