CHADIC
Dictionary entry overview: What does Chadic mean?
• CHADIC (noun)
The noun CHADIC has 1 sense:
1. a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa
Familiarity information: CHADIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CHADIC (noun)
Meaning:
A family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Chadic; Chadic language; Chad
Hypernyms ("Chadic" is a kind of...):
Afrasian; Afrasian language; Afro-Asiatic; Afroasiatic; Afroasiatic language; Hamito-Semitic (a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Chadic"):
West Chadic (a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria; Hausa in the most important member)
Biu-Mandara (a group of Chadic languages spoken in the border area between Cameroon and Nigeria south of Lake Chad)
East Chadic (a group of Chadic languages spoken in Chad)
Masa (an independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages)
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