Sinyar language

Sinyar
Shemya
Native to Chad
Ethnicity Sinyar
Native speakers
12,000 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sys
Glottolog siny1243[2]

Shemya is the language of the Sinyar people. It is a Central Sudanic language spoken in Chad and formerly in Darfur, Sudan. It is variously spelled Shamya, Shamyan, Shemya, Sinya, and known as Symiarta, Taar Shamyan, Zimirra.

References

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


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