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Chadic, a.|ˈtʃædɪk|
[f. as Chadian n. and a. + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to an Afro-Asiatic group of languages (of which the most prominent is Hausa) spoken in West and Central Africa.
1977C. F. & F. M. Voegelin Classification & Index World's Lang. 104 Most languages of the Chadic family are spoken in an area extending from the area of Lake Chad to the borderlands of Nigeria, Cameroon, and Central African Republic. 1983Word 1982 XXXIII. 233 In Guidar and Guiziga, and probably in other Chadic languages of North Cameroon, some ideophones..may themselves be used as predicates without the corresponding verb. 1987D. Crystal Cambr. Encycl. Lang. lii. 316/2 Hausa..is the only Chadic language to have a written form. 1989Encycl. Brit. XXII. 740/1 Some linguists deny the genetic affinity of the Chadic languages with the other branches of Hamito-Semitic, while others..accept it. |