Chad·ic

(chăd′ĭk)

A subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic language family, spoken in west-central Africa and including Hausa.

Chad′ic adj.

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Chadic

(ˈtʃædɪk)

(Languages) a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages, spoken in an area west and south of Lake Chad, the chief member of which is Hausa

adj

(Languages) denoting, relating to, or belonging to this group of languages

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Chad•ic

(ˈtʃæd ɪk)

n.

a language family of Africa, a branch of the Afroasiatic family, that includes Hausa and a large number of less widely spoken languages of N Nigeria, N Cameroon, and Chad.

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Noun

Chadic - a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa

Chadic language, Chad

West Chadic - a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria; Hausa in the most important member

Biu-Mandara - a group of Chadic languages spoken in the border area between Cameroon and Nigeria south of Lake Chad

East Chadic - a group of Chadic languages spoken in Chad

Masa - an independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages

Afrasian, Afrasian language, Afroasiatic, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic language, Hamito-Semitic - a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa

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The topics include focus, questions, and givenness; the scalar particle har'i in Ngamo (West Chadic); inferring meaning from indirect answers to polar questions: the contribution of the rise-fall-rise contour; and two alternatives for disjunction: an inquisitive reconciliation.

Questions in Discourse: Volume 2: Pragmatics

Kushi is a Chadic language belonging to the Tangale proper of the Bole-Tangale group (West Chadic).

A Kushi-English-Hausa Wordlist

GALWAY: 2.15 Chadic, 2.45 Irish Bulletin, 3.20 Reckless Endeavour, 3.55 Road To Riches, 4.30 Mr Fiftyone, 5.00 Tarazani, 5.30 Nonetheless, 6.00 Mountain Rock.

Orion set to take a Bow

GALWAY: 2.15 Chadic, 2.45 Irish Bulletin, Endeavour, 3.55 Road To Riches, Fiftyone, 5.00 Tarazani, 5.30 Nonetheless, Mountain Rock.

Orion set to take a Bow

ROBBIE McNAMARA made a blistering start to his training career when his first runner Chadic was a winner and the same horse runs in the valuable Connacht Hotel (QR) Handicap over an extended two miles at Galway this evening.

Win & Rob will dance a Cha Cha

Whereas the first event is expressed by means of a lexical root, the second is expressed by means of a derivational suffix, as I will show for the Afroasiatic Chadic language Hausa (Section 2.1), the Niger-Congo language Tima (Section 2.2), and a number of Nilo-Saharan Nilotic languages (Section 2.3).

Alloying as an economy principle in morphology

Winner of a Redcar maiden on her second start back in May, the daughter of Champs Elysees was not sighted again until finishing second at Chester in July, when she did not enjoy the best of runs in behind winner Chadic.

Fort Del Oro for York gold

TRUST Chadic to continue Mark Johnston's winning streak on Ayr's exciting July Finale Raceday.

ayr raid for johnston

(33) With the latter idiom, we are right in the Chadic.

Hommage a Antenor Firmin (1850-1911), egyptologue Haitien/Homage to Antenor Firmin (1850-1911), Haitian Egyptologist

Indigenes from the Chadic tribes of the Plateau are commonly found in Jos though they originate from villages and communities outside of Jos.

The work of a woman is to give birth to children: cultural constructions of infertility in Nigeria