Chadic Languages

The term ‘Chadic Languages’ nowadays mostly describes the more than 140 individual languages and dialects spoken in the geographical area of northern Nigeria, northern Cameroon and the south of the Chad. The Chadic languages belong to the Afro-Asiatic (formerly: Hamito-Semitic) language family. The by far most important language of this group is Hausa, which is spoken by between 40 to 50 million people and is the most important vehicular language used in western and central Africa. The other Chadic languages combined total only about a further half a million speakers.

Publication Series

– CLT Chadic Languages • Linguistique Tchadique • Tschadistik

Khalil Alio: Sússúnà. Contes Bidiya (Guéra/Tchad)
Westafrikanische Studien Band 30

Bole Language and Documentation Unit BOLDU, Report I
edited by Dymitr Ibriszimow and Alhaji M. Gimba
Westafrikanische Studien Volume 6

Chadic and Hausa Linguistics. Selected Papers of Paul Newman with Commentaries
edited by Philip J. Jaggar and H. Ekkehard Wolff
Afrikanistische Forschungen Volume 12

Zygmunt Frajzyngier / Mohammed Munkaila: Grammatical and Semantic Relations in Hausa. ‘Point of View’, ‘Goal’ and ‘Affected Object’
Grammatical Analyses of African Languages Volume 24

John Hall: Religion, Myth and Magic in Tangale
edited by Herrmann Jungraithmayr and Jörg Adelberger
Westafrikanische Studien Volume 5

Andrew Haruna: A Grammatical Outline of Gùrdùn/Gùrùntùm (Southern Bauchi, Nigeria)
Westafrikanische Studien Volume 25

Hausa and the Chadic Language Family. A Bibliography
compiled by Paul Newman
African Linguistic Bibliographies Volume 6

Dymitr Ibriszimow: Bole Language and Documentation Unit BOLDU, Report II
Westafrikanische Studien Volume 13

Rudolf Leger: Eine Grammatik der Kwami-Sprache (Nordostnigeria)
Westafrikanische Studien Volume 8

Our People’s Own (Ina Lamang). Traditions and Specimens of Oral Literature from Gwad Lamang Speaking Peoples in the Southern Lake Chad Basin in Central Africa
compiled and edited by H. Ekkehard Wolff, in cooperation with Alhaji Abdullahi Ndaghra and Eleonore Adwiraah
Afrikanistische Forschungen Volume 11

Research Mate in African Linguistics. Focus on Cameroon. A Fieldworker’s Tool for Deciphering the Stories Cameroonian Languages Have to Tell. In Honor of Professor Larry M. Hyman
edited by Ngessimo M. Mutaka and Sammy B. Chumbow
Grammatical  Analyses of African Languages Volume 17

Sindi. Tangale Folktales (Kaltungo, Northeastern Nigeria)
collected, translated and edited by Herrmann Jungraithmayr, in collaboration with Njeno Andirya Galadima, Stephen Njeno Pulkis and Harald Vajkonny. Prefatory Essay by Johannes Harnischfeger
Westafrikanische Studien Volume 23

Studia Chadica et Hamitosemitica. Akten des Internationalen Symposions zur Tschadsprachen- forschung
edited by Dymitr Ibriszimow and Rudolf Leger, in collaboration with Gerald Schmitt

Titles dealing with Hausa can be found on our detailed Hausa language page.