Korandjé

E618287

Korandjé is a highly endangered Northern Songhay language spoken in the oasis town of Tabelbala in southwestern Algeria.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Korandje 2
Korandjé canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Northern Songhay language
endangered language
language
contactZone Berber–Arabic–Songhay contact area
country Algeria
documentationStatus poorly documented
endangermentStatus highly endangered
geographicIsolation oasis community
glottocode kora1292
hasAlternateName Belbali
Kwarandjey
Kwarandzyey
hasInfluenceFrom Arabic
Berber languages
Hassaniya Arabic
Moroccan Arabic
linked to: Maghrebi Arabic

Taznatit
Zenaga
linked to: Zenati
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
Berber languages
hasMorphologicalFeature mixed Songhay and Berber morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
emphatic consonants
pharyngeal consonants
hasResearchBy Lameen Souag
hasSyntacticFeature SVO word order
postpositions
prepositions
iso639-3 kcy
isSpokenInOasisTown Tabelbala
languageFamily Songhay languages
languageShiftTo Arabic
lexicalSimilarity Songhay languages
linguisticArea Northwestern Sahara
linked to: Northern Sahara
numberOfSpeakers few hundred
primaryLocality Tabelbala
region Sahara
linked to: Sahara Desert
script Arabic script
Latin script
spokenBy Korandjé people
linked to: Korandje people
spokenIn Algeria
Tabelbala
Tabelbala oasis
southwestern Algeria
status severely endangered
subgroupOf Northern Songhay languages
linked to: Songhay languages
transmission not fully transmitted to children

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tabelbala hasMinorityLanguage Korandje
linked to: Korandjé
Songhay hasDialect Korandje
linked to: Korandjé