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koyra chiini language wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 phonology 2 orthography 3 sample text 4 references toggle the table of contents koyra chiini language 14 languages asturianu deutsch español suomi français hausa igbo 日本語 한국어 malagasy piemontèis português simple english kiswahili edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikifunctions wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia songhay language koyra chiini koyra ciini jenne ciini كࣷيْرَ ٺِينِ جٜنّٜ ٺِينِ native to mali region niger river native speakers 200 000 cited 1999 1 language family nilo saharan songhay southern koyra chiini dialects djenné chiini koyra chiini writing system latin arabic language codes iso 639 3 khq glottolog koyr1240 location of songhay languages 2 northwest songhay korandje koyra chiini tadaksahak tasawaq tagdal eastern songhay tondi songway kiini humburi senni koyraboro senni zarma language songhoyboro ciine dendi this article contains ipa phonetic symbols without proper rendering support you may see question marks boxes or other symbols instead of unicode characters for an introductory guide on ipa symbols see help ipa koyra chiini kojra tʃiːni figuratively town language or western songhay is a member of the songhay languages spoken in mali by about 200 000 people in 1999 along the niger river in timbuktu and upriver from it in the towns of diré tonka goundam and niafunké as well as in the saharan town of araouane to its north in this area koyra chiini is the dominant language and the lingua franca although minorities speaking hassaniya arabic tamasheq and fulfulde are found djenné chiini dʒɛnːɛ tʃiːni the dialect spoken in djenné is mutually comprehensible but has noticeable differences in particular two extra vowels ɛ and ɔ and syntactic differences related to focalisation east of timbuktu koyra chiini gives way relatively abruptly to another songhay language koyraboro senni unlike most songhai languages koyra chiini has no phonemic tones and has subject verb object word order rather than subject object verb it has changed the original songhay z to j 3 phonology edit vowels front central back close i u mid e o open a all vowels have lengthened counterparts 3 consonants labial alveolar palatal velar glottal nasal m n ɲ ŋ plosive affricate voiceless p t t͡ʃ k ʔ voiced b d d͡ʒ g fricative voiceless f s ʃ x h voiced z ʒ approximant l j w flap ɾ orthography edit table below illustrates the latin alphabet for koyra chiini in mali as standardized by dnafla koyra chiini songhay latin alphabet mali 4 a a b b c c d d e e f f g g h h i i j j k k l l m m n n a b t͡ʃ d e f ɡ h i d͡ʒ k l m n ɲ ɲ ŋ ŋ o o p p r r s s š š t t u u w w y y z z ž ž ɲ ŋ o p r s ʃ t u w j z ʒ table below illustrates the arabic ajami alphabet for koyra chiini based on unesco breda report on standardization of arabic script in published in 1987 in bamako 5 6 koyra chiini arabic alphabet mali 5 6 arabic latin ipa ا ʔ ب b b b ت t t t ٺ c c t͡ʃ ث s s s ج j j d͡ʒ arabic latin ipa ح h h h خ kh kh x ݗ ŋ ŋ ŋ د d d d ذ z z z ر r r r arabic latin ipa ز z z z ژ ž ž ʒ س s s s ش š š ʃ ص s s s ض d d d arabic latin ipa ط t t t ظ z z z ع ʔ غ g g ɡ ݝ g g ɡ ڢ f f f arabic latin ipa ݠ p p p ڧ k k k ك k k k ل l l l م m m m ن n n n arabic latin ipa ه h h h و w w w ؤ ʔ ي y y j ئ ʔ ࢩ ɲ ɲ ɲ vowel at the beginning of a word a e i o u short vowels اَ اٜ اِ اࣷ اُ long vowels aa ee ii oo uu آ اٜيـ اٜي اِيـ اِي اࣷو اُو vowel at the middle or end of a word a e i o u short vowels َ ٜ ِ ࣷ ُ long vowels aa ee ii oo uu َا َـا ٜيـ ٜـيـ ٜي ٜـي ِيـ ِـيـ ِي ِـي ࣷو ࣷـو ُو ُـو sample text edit below is a sample text a portion of a monologue recorded in timbuktu in 1986 it describes the 1840 battle of toya in which tuaregs defeated a force from the fula empire which had its capital in hamdullahi 7 english translation the tuaregs when they began they took a great deal of this land s taxes they oppressed them local people with their iron rule they took taxes to the point that they oppressed the people very much so they people wrote to them distant leaders they went to hamdullahi they told asked sékou a leader to help them fight the tuaregs sékou he found one of his own pupils whom they called amadou sambourou kolado doursoudi a pupil of his whom he had much confidence in sekou asked him amadou well what did he amadou want latin alphabet surgu di yo saa di kaa na i šintii hisa ka din gandoo alkaasu i faraandi gi nda laamu i din alkaasu di hal i hisa ka faraandi boro di yo saa di i hantum i se i koy hamdallaay i har seeku se a ma faaba ŋgiye nda ka yenje surgu di yo seeku a gar ŋgu wane taalib foo kaa se i i har aamadu samburu koolado dursudi ŋga wane taalib foo kaa a a hisa ka naaney ga seeku har a se kaa aywa maa na a a baa arabic alphabet سُرْݝُ دِ يࣷ سَا دِ كَا نَ اِ شِنْتِي هِسَ كَ دِنْ ݝَنْدࣷ اَلْكَاسُ اِ ڢَرَاندِ ݝِنْدَ لَامُ اِ دِنْ اَلْكَاسُ دِ حَل اِ هِسَ كَ فَرَاندِ بࣷرࣷ دِ يࣷ سَا دِ اِ هَنْتُمْ اِ سٜ اِ كࣷيْ حَمدَلَّايْ اِ هَرْ سٜيكُ سٜ اَ مَ فَابَ ݗْݝِيٜ نْدَ كَ يٜنْجٜ سُرݝُ دِ يࣷ سٜيكُ اَ ݝَر ݗْݝُ وَنٜ طَالِب فࣷو كَا سٜ اِئِ هَر آمَدُ سَمْبُرُ كࣷولَدࣷ دُرسُدِ ݗْݝَ وَنٜ طَالِب فࣷو كَا اَأَ هِسَ كَ نَانٜي ݝَ سٜيكُ هَرْ اَ سٜ كَا اَيْوَ مَا نَ اَأَ بَا references edit koyra chiini at ethnologue 18th ed 2015 subscription required this map is based on classification from glottolog and data from ethnologue 1 2 heath jeffrey 1999 01 01 a grammar of koyra chiini the songhay of timbuktu walter de gruyter isbn 9783110804850 république du mali direction nationale de l alphabétisation fonctionnelle et de la linguistique appliquée alphabets et règles d orthographe des langues nationales bamako dnafla 1993 1 2 chtatou m 1992 using arabic script in writing the languages of the peoples of muslim africa institute of african studies 1 2 kew jonathan 2 june 2003 proposal to encode arabic script letters for african languages pdf heath jeffrey a grammar of koyra chiini the songhay of timbuktu berlin new york mouton de gruyter 1998 mouton grammar library 19 isbn 3 11 016285 7 ed jeffrey heath wilhelm j möhlig 1998 texts in koyra chiini songhay of timbuktu mali ruediger koeppe isbn 3 89645 260 6 jeffrey heath dictionnaire songhay anglais français tome 1 koyra chiini ou songhay de tombouctou tome 2 djenné chiini ou songhay de djenné l harmattan paris 1998 isbn 2 7384 6726 1 v t e languages of mali official languages bambara bomu tieyaxo bozo toro so dogon maasina fulfulde hassaniya arabic mamara senoufo kita maninkakan soninke koyraboro senni songhay syenara senoufo tamasheq xaasongaxango working language french indigenous languages niger congo dogon ampari ana bankan tey ben tey bondum budu duleri jamsai mombo nanga penange tebul tommo so western plains yanda other dyula fula maninka n ko mooré pulaar siamou soninke supyire yalunka nilo saharan humburi senni koyra chiini koyraboro senni tadaksahak tondi songway kiini other bangime sign languages bamako sign language berbey sign language douentza sign language tebul sign language v t e songhay languages northern tadaksahak tagdal korandje tasawaq southern dendi humburi senni kaado koyra chiini koyraboro senni tondi kiini zarma v t e arabic alphabets indicates the language is no longer written using arabic europe albanian avar azerbaijani belarusian chechen circassian adyghe kabardian crimean tatar dargwa greek ingush karachay balkar kazakh kumyk lak lezgin old spanish ottoman turkish serbo croatian asia aer arabic azerbaijani balochi balti bashkir bengali brahui buri wolio burushaski chagatay cham jawi gawri gujrati jawi jawoe kashmiri kazakh kishtwari khowar kurdish kyrgyz malayalam ottoman turkish marwari rajasthani mehri pamir munjani sarikoli shughni wakhi palula parkari pashto pegon persian punjabi rohingya saraiki serang sindhi shina gilgiti kohistani sulat sug tamil tatar i̇ske imlâ yaña imlâ torwali turkmen urdu ushoji uyghur uzbek xiao erjing zaza africa afrikaans berber comorian fula ajami adamawa bagirmi nigeria fuuta jalon fuuta tooro maasina kibushi harari hausa ajami kanembu maba serer ajami shimaore songhay humburi koyra chiini koyraboro senni zarma sorabe tem tigre tuareg air tamajeq tawellemmet swahili wadaad wolof yoruba category this mali related article is a stub you can help wikipedia by adding missing information v t e this nilo saharan languages related article is a stub you can help wikipedia by adding 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