Zari language

{{Short description|Extinct Chadic dialect cluster of Nigeria}} {{Infobox language |name=Zari |region=Bauchi State, Plateau State |ethnicity=20,700 (2000)<ref name=e25/> |extinct=2000 |ref=e25 |familycolor=Afro-Asiatic |fam2=Chadic |fam3=West |fam4=Barawa (B.3) |fam5=Zaar |iso3=zaz |glotto=zari1242 |glottorefname=Zari |dia1=Zakshi (Zaksa) |dia2=Boto (Boot, Bibot) |dia3=Zari (Kopti, Kwapm) }}

'''Zari''' (Zariwa) is a Chadic dialect cluster of Nigeria. Blench (2019) lists varieties as Zari, Zakshi, and Boto.<ref name="BlenchAtlas4">{{Cite book|title=An Atlas of Nigerian Languages|last=Blench|first=Roger|publisher=Kay Williamson Educational Foundation|year=2019|edition=4th|location=Cambridge}}</ref>

Although there is an ethnic population of about 20,000, the last speaker had already died by 2000 (Campbell and Belew 2018).

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{{West Chadic languages}} Category:Chadic languages Category:Extinct languages of Africa