Ngizim language

Ngizim (also known as Ngizmawa, Ngezzim, Ngódṣin) is a Chadic language spoken by the Ngizim people in Yobe State, Nigeria.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Ngizim
Native toNigeria
RegionYobe State
Native speakers
(80,000 cited 1993)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ngi
Glottologngiz1242
ELPNgizim

Writing System
Ngizim alphabet[11]
Uppercase ƎABƁC DƊEFG HIJKL
Lowercase ǝabɓc dɗefg hijkl
Uppercase MNOPR R̃STUV WYʼY Z
Lowercase mnopr r̃stuv wyʼy z

The digraphs dl, sh, tl, zh are also used.

Notes
  1. Ngizim at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. "Ethnologue Report: Ngizim". www.ethnologue.com.
  3. "Yobe Language Research Project". www.humnet.ucla.edu.
  4. A Sudanic Chronicle: The Borno expeditions of Idris Alauma (1564–1576), pp. 122 and 155
  5. Project, Joshua. "Ngizim, Ngizmawa in Nigeria". joshuaproject.net. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  6. Palmer, H. R. Sudanese Memoirs. p. 32.
  7. "Yobe Ngizims and their values". Nigeria Tribune. Nigeria. 20 July 2007.
  8. Palmer, H. R. History of the first twelve years of the reign of Mai Idris Alooma of Bornu (1571–1583), by his Imam Ahmed Bin Furtua. p. 4.
  9. Hoghen, S. J.; Kirk-Greene, A. H. M. Emirates of Northern Nigeria. p. 363.
  10. Pataskum Emirate Palace Museum
  11. Adamu & Potiskum 2009, p. vi.

Further reading
  • Mohammed Alhaji Adamu, Usman Babayo Garba Potiskum, 2009, Ngizim–English–Hausa Dictionary, Yobe Language Research Project.
  • Russell G. Schuh. 1972. "Aspects of Ngizim Syntax," University of California, Los Angeles PhD dissertation.
  • Russell G. Schuh. 1977. "Bade/Ngizim determiner system," Afroasiatic Linguistics 4:1-74.
  • Russell G. Schuh. 1981. A Dictionary of Ngizim. University of California Publications in Linguistics 99. Berkeley: University of California Press.


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