chadic

(noun, adjective)

adjective

1. (linguistics) Belonging to a language family spoken across northern Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic and Cameroon.

- Hausa is the most widely spoken Chadic language.

noun

1. a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa

Similar word(s): chad

Definition categories: communication, afrasian