Ngizim
Native toNigeria
RegionYobe State
Native speakers
(80,000 cited 1993)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ngi
Glottologngiz1242
ELPNgizim

Ngizim (also known as Ngizmawa, Ngezzim, Ngódṣin) is a Chadic language spoken by the Ngizim people in Yobe State, Nigeria.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Writing System

Ngizim alphabet[11]
Uppercase ƎABƁC DƊEFG HIJKL
Lowercase ǝabɓc dɗefg hijkl
Uppercase MNOPR R̃STUV WYʼY Z
Lowercase mnopr r̃stuv wyʼy z

The digraphs dl, sh, tl, zh are also used.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Ngizim at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ "Ethnologue Report: Ngizim". www.ethnologue.com.
  3. ↑ "Yobe Language Research Project". www.humnet.ucla.edu.
  4. ↑ A Sudanic Chronicle: The Borno expeditions of Idris Alauma (1564–1576), pp. 122 and 155
  5. ↑ Project, Joshua. "Ngizim, Ngizmawa in Nigeria". joshuaproject.net. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  6. ↑ Palmer, H. R. Sudanese Memoirs. p. 32.
  7. ↑ "Yobe Ngizims and their values". Nigeria Tribune. Nigeria. 20 July 2007.
  8. ↑ Palmer, H. R. History of the first twelve years of the reign of Mai Idris Alooma of Bornu (1571–1583), by his Imam Ahmed Bin Furtua. p. 4.
  9. ↑ Hoghen, S. J.; Kirk-Greene, A. H. M. Emirates of Northern Nigeria. p. 363.
  10. ↑ Pataskum Emirate Palace Museum
  11. ↑ Adamu & Potiskum 2009, p. vi.

Further reading

  • Mohammed Alhaji Adamu, Usman Babayo Garba Potiskum, 2009, Ngizim–English–Hausa Dictionary, Yobe Language Research Project.
  • Russell G. Schuh. 1972. "Aspects of Ngizim Syntax," University of California, Los Angeles PhD dissertation.
  • Russell G. Schuh. 1977. "Bade/Ngizim determiner system," Afroasiatic Linguistics 4:1-74.
  • Russell G. Schuh. 1981. A Dictionary of Ngizim. University of California Publications in Linguistics 99. Berkeley: University of California Press.


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