Dendi language

Dendi
Dandawa
Region	northern Benin
Native speakers	32,000 (1995)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Songhay Southern Dendi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ddn
Glottolog	dend1243[2]
Location of Songhay languages[3] Northwest Songhay:   Korandje   Koyra Chiini   Tadaksahak   Tasawaq   Tagdal Eastern Songhay:   Tondi Songway Kiini   Humburi Senni   Koyraboro Senni   Zarma language   Dendi

Dendi is a Songhay language used as a trade language across northern Benin (along the Niger River; Donga and Alibori provinces, e.g. Djougou, Kandi). It forms a dialect cluster with Zarma and Songhai proper, but is heavily influenced by Bariba.

Zendi has been described as a four-tone language.^[4]

References

1. Dendi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dendi (Benin)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. This map is based on classification from Glottolog and data from Ethnologue.
4. Joe Salmons, Accentual change and language contact: Comparative survey and a case study of early Northern Europe