Day language

Day
Native to southern Chad
Native speakers
50,000 (1993 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 dai
Glottolog dayy1236[2]

Day is an Adamawa language of southern Chad, spoken by 50,000 or so people. Ethnologue reports that its dialects are mutually intelligible, but Blench (2004) lists Ndanga, Njira, Yani, Takawa as apparently separate languages.

References

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


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