Babalia Creole Arabic

Babalia Arabic
Native to	Chad
Ethnicity	Babalia
Native speakers	3,900 (1993 census)^[1]
Language family	Arabic-based creole Babalia Arabic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`bbz`
Glottolog	`baba1273`^[2]

Babalia Arabic is a creolized form of Chadian Arabic spoken by the Babalia people, whose original language was Beraku; Babalia Creole vocabulary is 90% Chadian Arabic and 10% Beraku, though speakers use a continuum to Chadian Arabic.

References

↑ Babalia Arabic at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Babalia Creole Arabic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Varieties of Arabic

Pre-Islamic

Ancient North Arabian
- Dadanitic
- Oasis North Arabian
- Dumaitic
- Hasaitic
- Hismaic
- Safaitic
- Taymanitic
- Thamudic
Pre-classical

Modern literary

Peninsular

Northeastern	Gulf Omani Shihhi Dhofari Kuwaiti Najdi

Western	Bareqi Hejazi Sedentary Bedouin

Southern	Baharna Yemeni Hadhrami Sanaani Ta'izzi-Adeni Tihami Judeo-Yemeni

Northwestern	Bedouin

Eastern

Mesopotamian	North Mesopotamian Cypriot Maronite Anatolian Judeo-Iraqi South Mesopotamian Baghdad Koiné Khuzestani

Central Asian	Afghani Khorasani Tajiki Uzbeki Qashqadaryan Bukharian

Levantine

North Levantine	North Syrian Central Levantine Central Syrian Lebanese

South Levantine	Jordanian Palestinian Urban Central village Outer southern

Nilo-Egyptian

Western

Iberian

Andalusian

Maghrebi

Pre-Hilalian	Urban Eastern Village Sahel Lesser Kabylia Western Village Traras-Msirda Mountain Jewish Judeo-Moroccan Judeo-Tripolitanian Judeo-Tunisian

Hilalian	Sulaym Libyan koiné Eastern Hilal Tunisian koiné Central Hilal Algerian koiné Central and Saharan Eastern Algerian Western Algerian Maqil Western Moroccan Eastern Moroccan Moroccan koiné Hassānīya

Siculo-Arabic

Maltese
Sicilian

Undescribed

Shirvani

Judeo-Arabic

Creoles and pidgins

Italics indicate extinct languages.

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