chadic
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