Jenne Chiini

E603879

Jenne Chiini is a Songhay language variety spoken primarily in and around the town of Djenné in Mali.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Jenne Chiini canonical 2

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Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Songhay language variety
language
closelyRelatedTo Koyra Chiini
Koyraboro Senni
country Mali
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Songhay people
linked to: Songhai people
hasAlternativeName Djenné Chiini
Jenne Ciini
linked to: Jenne
hasDialect rural surrounding-villages varieties
urban Djenné variety
hasLinguisticFeature SOV basic word order
agglutinative morphology
aspectual auxiliaries
loanwords from Arabic
loanwords from Bambara
loanwords from French
postpositions
subject pronoun clitics
tonal language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory
tonal contrasts
hasResearch descriptive grammar by Jeffrey Heath
lexicon compiled by Jeffrey Heath
ISO639-3 jnn
languageFamily Songhay languages
languageStatus minority language
linguisticArea Niger–Mali Songhay area
neighboringLanguage Bambara
Bozo languages
Fulfulde
Tamasheq
region town of Djenné and surrounding area
spokenBy several thousand speakers
spokenIn Djenné
Mali
Mopti Region
subclassOf Southern Songhay language
linked to: Songhay languages
usedAs vernacular language
usedIn daily communication in Djenné
local trade in Djenné region
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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