Babalia Creole Arabic
| Babalia Arabic | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Chad |
| Ethnicity | Babalia |
Native speakers | 3,900 (1993 census)[1] |
|
Arabic-based creole
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bbz |
| Glottolog |
baba1273[2] |
Babalia Arabic is a creolized form of Chadian Arabic spoken by the Babalia people, whose original language was Beraku; Babalia Creole vocabulary is 90% Chadian Arabic and 10% Beraku, though speakers use a continuum to Chadian Arabic.
References
- ↑ Babalia Arabic at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Babalia Creole Arabic". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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