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Warji language

Warji language

Chadic language spoken in Nigeria

Warji (Warjawa) or Sirzakwai is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria. Speakers are shifting to Hausa.[2]

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Distribution

Warji is spoken in:[3]

Morphology

Within the Bade–Warji languages, Warji has the most complex nominal plural marking system.[4] Plurals are marked by the following suffixes.[3]

  • -tsǝ
  • -sA (-sǝ, -sa)
  • -Aŋsǝ (-ǝŋsǝ, -aŋsǝ)
  • -(aŋ)ʃi (-shi, -aŋshi; stem-final -i is assimilated)

These may be all allomorphs of a single suffix, with optional inserted nasals.

Suppletive nominal plurals are:[3]

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Notes

  1. [1]
    Warji at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
  3. [3]
    Blench, Roger Wordlist of the Sirzakwai (Warji) language with Hausa and English equivalents.
  4. [4]
    Blench, Roger. 2021. The erosion of number marking in West Chadic Roger Blench. WOCAL, Leiden.
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