Ɗuwai language

{{Short description|Chadic language spoken in Nigeria}} {{Infobox language |name=Ɗuwai |states=Nigeria |region=Yobe State, Kano State |speakers={{sigfig|11,400|2}} |date=2000 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Afro-Asiatic |fam2=Chadic |fam3=West Chadic |fam4=Bade–Warji |fam5=Bade (B.1) |iso3=dbp |glotto=duwa1244 |glottorefname=Duwai }}

'''Ɗuwai''' (Dó:aí) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Jigawa and Kano States, Nigeria.<ref name=e18/>

==Writing System== {|class="wikitable" |+ Duwai alphabet<ref>{{cite book |last=Dagona |first=Bala Wakili |editor=Russell G. Schuh |title=Bade-English-Hausa dictionary (Western Dialect) |publisher=Yobe Languages Research Project |date=2009 |page=vii |url=http://aflang.linguistics.ucla.edu/Yobe/Dictionaries/BadeW_english_hausa_2009.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128201247/http://aflang.linguistics.ucla.edu/Yobe/Dictionaries/BadeW_english_hausa_2009.pdf |archive-date=28 November 2016}}</ref> |- | Ə || A || B || Ɓ || C | D|| Ɗ || E|| F|| G | H|| I|| J|| K|| L | M|| N|| Ŋ || O|| P | R|| R̃|| S|| T|| U | V|| W|| Y|| ʼY || Z |- | ə || a || b || ɓ || c | d || ɗ || e || f || g | h || i || j || k || l | m || n || ŋ || o || p | r || r̃ || s || t || u | v || w || y || ʼy || z |}

== Notes == {{Reflist}}

== External links == *[https://aflang.humanities.ucla.edu/language-materials/afro-asiatic-languages/chadic-languages/yobe/duwai Duwai language resources from UCLA] *[http://aflang.humnet.ucla.edu/Yobe/Pages/yobe_dictionaries.html Duwai language dictionary] *[http://www.language-archives.org/language/dbp OLAC resources in and about the Duwai language]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Duwai language}} Category:West Chadic languages Category:Languages of Nigeria