# Zari language

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

'''Zari''' (Zariwa) is a [Chadic](/source/Chadic_language) [dialect cluster](/source/dialect_cluster) of [Nigeria](/source/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).

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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

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{{Nigeria-lang-stub}}

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