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3275: 4263: 234: 2807:). (Beginning grammars for foreigners sometimes inaccurately call the first two "past and present tenses".) There is also an imperative and a continuing or progressive construction. Lack of a modal marker indicates either the affirmative completive aspect (if there is a subject and no object) or the singular affirmative imperative (if there is no subject). There is a special modal marker, 1012:
is generally unimportant in Zarma. According to Abdou Hamani (1980), two-syllable words are stressed on their first syllable unless that syllable is just a short vowel: a-, i- or u-. Three-syllable words have stress on their second syllable. The first consonant of a stressed syllable is pronounced a
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on the noun phrase. The singular definite enclitic is -ǒ or -ǎ. Some authors always write the ending with a rising tone mark even if it is not ambiguous and even if it is not truly a rising tone. The other endings are in the table below. The definite and the demonstrative endings replace any final
2661:فَيَنْكَ كُلُ نࣷ سِ اَدَمَيْزٜيْ نْدَ ݘَرٜ غَمٜ رَ اِ بُرݘِنْتَرَ نْدَ اِ اَلحَقٜيْ ݘٜدِرَوْ كَيَنْدِیَݞْ فࣷنْدࣷ رَ دَ اِ نَ اِ حَيْ. اِ غࣷنْدَ لَكَّلْ، نْدَ لَاسَابُ، كَݞْ غَ نَݞْ اِ مَ بَافُنَيْ ٽَيْزٜتَرَيْ حَالِ رَ. 3064:. The object is normally placed before the verb but may be placed after the verb for emphasis, and a few common verbs require the object after them. Unlike English, which places prepositions before a noun, Zarma has 1076:
Latin alphabet came to be used for Zarma and other indigenous languages of the region in the beginning of the 19th century with the arrival of European Christian Missionaries and colonial administrators.
3001:, which is similar in meaning to the past participle in English. It can also be added to quantities to form ordinal numbers and to some nouns to form adjectives. A sort of gerund can be formed by adding 2651:
Fayanka kulu no si adamayzey nda care game ra i burcintara nda i alhakey ce-diraw kayandiyaŋ fondo ra da i na i hay. I gonda lakkal, nda laasaabu, kaŋ ga naŋ i ma baafunay ɲayzetaray haali ra.
2958:) is not a verb (White-Kaba, 1994, calls it a "verboid") and has no aspect; it means "exist" and usually links a noun phrase to a descriptive term, such as a place, a price or a participle: 2692:
Nouns may be singular or plural. There are also three "forms" that indicate whether the noun is indefinite, definite or demonstrative. "Form" and number are indicated conjointly by an
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vowel. See Hamani (1980) for a discussion on when to add -ǒ or -ǎ as well as other irregularities. See Tersis (1981) for a discussion of the complex changes in tone that may occur.
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The majority of people who speak Zarma live in Southwestern Niger. It is also spoken in other parts of Niger and in neighbouring countries. Cities where Zarma is spoken include
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Zarma is a tonal language with four tones: high, low, fall and rise. In Dosso, some linguists (such as Tersis) have observed a dipping (falling-rising) tone for certain words:
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bit more strongly, and the vowel in the preceding syllable is weakened. Only emphasized words have a stressed syllable. There is no change of tone for a stressed syllable.
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means "it is", "they are", etc. and is one of the most common words in Zarma. It has no aspect or negative form and is placed after a noun phrase, sometimes for emphasis:
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means "Give me some oranges." Usually, the singular forms are used if the plurality is indicated by a number or other contextual clue, especially for the indefinite form:
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All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
3326: 3470: 3664: 2815:, according to the dialect, to indicate the completive aspect with emphasis on the subject. Different markers are used to indicate a negative sentence. 1462: 928: 3785: 1049:
have been written in Arabic alphabet for centuries. The tradition of writing in Arabic dates back to the arrival of Islam via merchants of the
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can mean "he", "she", "it", "her", "him", "his", "hers", "its", "one" or "one's", according to the context and its position in the sentence.
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All consonants may be short, and all consonants except /c/, /h/, /f/ and /z/ may be long. (In some dialects, long /f/ exists in the word
2165: 1236: 898: 1556:("to be better": rising tone). However, the meaning is almost always unambiguous in the context so the words are usually all written 3463: 1925: 1755: 1155: 424:, which is spoken in south-central Niger. With over 6 million speakers, Zarma is easily the most widely spoken Songhay language. 3325:
Chtatou, M. (1992). Using Arabic script in writing the languages of the peoples of Muslim africa. Institute of African Studies.
3657: 3095:("your father"). All other modifiers of a noun (adjectives, articles, numbers, demonstratives etc.) are placed after the noun: 2095: 1427: 1182: 1173: 837: 356: 3415: 3061: 1945: 1905: 1705: 1348: 1321: 844: 438:
Alternative names for Zarma are Djerma, Jerma, Dyabarma, Dyarma, Dyerma, Adzerma, Zabarma, Zarbarma, Zarmaci or Zerma.
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When two nouns are placed together, the first noun modifies the second, showing possession, purpose or description:
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for verbs that are indicated by a modal word before the verb and any object nouns. The aspects are the completive (
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implies that the second verb is a result of the first or that the first is the reason or cause of the second:
3020:, not to be confused with the incompletive aspect marker or the emphasized completive marker.) The connector 3855: 2145: 2115: 1965: 1815: 1645: 1227: 1164: 1146: 799: 792: 774: 4266: 4187: 4108: 4077: 3963: 3850: 3771: 3727: 3274: 1725: 1503: 1436: 1218: 984: 980: 976: 972: 806: 660: 656: 644: 640: 636: 632: 628: 312: 121: 4192: 4000: 3737: 2205: 2185: 1855: 1497: 1339: 1294: 1245: 953: 716: 709: 262: 4222: 4217: 3908: 3823: 3575: 2333: 2313: 2293: 2273: 2243: 2225: 2223: 2203: 2183: 2163: 2143: 2113: 2093: 2073: 2055: 2053: 2033: 2013: 1983: 1963: 1943: 1923: 1903: 1883: 1853: 1833: 1813: 1793: 1773: 1753: 1723: 1703: 1683: 1663: 1643: 1623: 1615: 1523: 1495: 1479: 1460: 1449: 1434: 1391: 1382: 1373: 1364: 1355: 1346: 1337: 1328: 1319: 1310: 1303: 1301: 1292: 1243: 1234: 1225: 1216: 1207: 1198: 1191: 1189: 1180: 1171: 1162: 1153: 1144: 1135: 1009: 816: 723: 596: 554:
Outside Niger, Nigeria and Mali, communities of speakers are found in the following other countries:
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is phonemically distinctive. There are a number of combinations of a vowel with a semivowel
583: 280: 3341: 3028:, "come (in order to) eat." A large number of idiomatic expressions are expressed with it: 1502:. Long vowels are sometimes but inconsistently written with double letter. In older works, 4237: 4208: 4197: 4142: 4052: 4046: 4030: 4005: 3948: 3903: 3839: 3808: 3742: 3694: 3621: 3616: 3534: 3514: 3493: 1026: 945: 703: 691: 321: 174: 113: 1540:
is not written unless the word is ambiguous. Then, the standard IPA diacritics are used:
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There are several words in Zarma to translate the English "to be". The defective verb
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may be used in a few words of foreign origin, but many Zarma cannot pronounce it.
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has its own unique characteristics across various languages that differ from the
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usually have some palatal quality to them and may even be interchangeable with
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Cawyan Zarma sanni, an instructional course in Zarma, in English, in progress
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There are many suffixes in Zarma. There are very few prefixes, and only one (
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This map is based on classification from Glottolog and data from Ethnologue.
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Verbs do not have tenses and are not conjugated. There are at least three
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are much rarer and usually express ideas, such as the subjunctive, which
2935:. Some say that it is high before a low tone and low before a high tone. 2779:
There is no gender or case in Zarma so the third-person singular pronoun
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Table below illustrates the Arabic (Ajami) alphabet for Zarma, based on
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counterparts. There is slight variation, both allophonic and dialectal.
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Economie d’un système: unités et relations syntaxiques en zarma (Niger)
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Table below illustrates the letters used in the Zarma Latin alphabet:
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The indefinite plural -yáŋ ending is often used like English "some".
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is used to equate two noun phrases, with the emphasized completive
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report on standardization of Arabic script in published in 1987 in
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Most of the letters are pronounced with the same values as the
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Proposal to encode Arabic-script letters for African languages
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La structure grammaticale du zarma: Essai de systématisation
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That means that "you need to hear both sides of the story".
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characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see
1420: 3428: 3410: 2970:("It's to your house I'm going"). Other words, such as 3379:. Paris: Agence de coopération culturelle et technique 1403:
Nasal vowels are written with a tilde or a following
1589: 4096: 3896: 3801: 3713: 3680: 3604: 3568: 3502: 3486: 3386:. 2 volumes. Université de Paris VII. Dissertation. 1411:. Officially, the tilde should go under the vowel ( 214: 198: 193: 164: 150: 110: 100: 90: 80: 58: 32: 3225:da curo fo hẽ, a-fo mana hẽ, i si jinde kaan-a bay 3391:De l’oralité à l’écriture: le zarma s’écrit aussi 3377:Dictionnaire zarma-français (République du Niger) 3107:Da curo fo hẽ, afo mana hẽ, i si jinde kaana bay. 1490:Long consonants are written with double letters; 1477:but more palatalized. The palatal nasal ⟨ 538:are spoken, Zarma is also simply referred to as 3099:("My father's gold lion heads", Tersis, 1981). 2757:means "this morning" (demonstrative singular). 485:, they are located in bordering States such as 3779: 3658: 3464: 3375:Bernard, Yves & White-Kaba, Mary. (1994) 2753:means "the morning" (definite singular); and 8: 3297:Hamidou, Seydou Hanafiou (19 October 1999). 627:There are ten vowels: the five oral vowels ( 1057:and Sub-Saharan Africa came to be known as 47: 3786: 3772: 3764: 3665: 3651: 3643: 3471: 3457: 3449: 3361:https://www.omniglot.com/writing/zarma.htm 2997:Participles can be formed with the suffix 2684:before adjectives and numbers) is common. 670: 232: 29: 3335: 3333: 3321: 3319: 2630:Below is a sample text, Article 1 of the 1579:Arabic alphabet for Songhay languages in 1073:tradition of Southeast Asia for example. 663:, the semivowel being initial or final. 2962:("She's in the house"). The predicative 2817: 2699: 2636: 2479: 2344: 1552:("to want" or "even": falling tone) and 1087: 1037:, and other indigenous languages of the 3252: 3012:Two verbs can be related with the word 2950:("My name is Yakuba"). The existential 2931:Linguists do not agree on the tone for 2749:means "morning" (indefinite singular); 1473:⟩ is approximately like English 504:The name Zabarmawa is derived from the 427:In earlier decades, Zarma was rendered 367:question marks, boxes, or other symbols 1522:are pronounced as a labiodental nasal 519:, where they are located in bordering 396: 27:Songhay language of southwestern Niger 3424:Peace Corps – Niger: Zarma Dictionary 3258: 3256: 2632:Universal Declaration of Human Rights 2481:Vowel at the middle or end of a word 1583:differs in 5 characters from that of 1428:International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) 1089:Zarma Songhay Latin Alphabet (Niger) 1021:Zarma is primarily written in either 149: 7: 3052:means "to purposely ..." and so on. 3048:means "it's been awhile since ...", 3068:, which are placed after the noun: 2776:("in both of these catastrophes"). 2768:("There are a lot of mosquitoes"); 508:word for the Zarma people and the 25: 2346:Vowel at the beginning of a word 1478: 1468: 952: 927: 904: 897: 890: 870: 854: 843: 836: 815: 805: 798: 791: 773: 766: 759: 752: 729: 722: 715: 708: 4262: 4261: 3273: 3444:Zarma language lessons, and MP3 3416:Songhai / Zarma Language Page, 2101: 2021: 2001: 1971: 1951: 1931: 1821: 1781: 1761: 1691: 1591:Zarma Arabic alphabet (Niger) 987:in the speech of many people. 527:, the name is usually spelled 1: 3418:Handbook of African languages 3340:Kew, Jonathan (2 June 2003). 3232:-one NEG.COMPL cry, they NEG. 3060:Zarma's normal word order is 3040:means "to have already ...", 1467:(a flap). The letter ⟨ 3102:Here is a proverb in Zarma: 1544:("to be a lot": high tone), 534:In countries where no other 416:flows and the capital city, 3044:means "to be about to ..., 477:are usually referred to as 397:زَرْمَ ݘِينٜ / زَرْمَ سَنِّ 50:زَرْمَ ݘِينٜ / زَرْمَ سَنِّ 4309: 3429:Zarma language and culture 3016:. (In many dialects it is 1033:). Zarma as well as other 48: 4257: 3097:Ay baaba wura muusu boŋey 3076:(in front of the house). 3036:means "to begin to ...", 2904: 2893: 2882: 2871: 2852: 2833: 2823: 2660: 2615: 2607: 2599: 2594: 2586: 2581: 2573: 2549: 2541: 2533: 2525: 2517: 2509: 2502: 2470: 2462: 2454: 2446: 2438: 2414: 2406: 2398: 2390: 2382: 2374: 2367: 2323: 2303: 2283: 2263: 2233: 2213: 2193: 2173: 2153: 2133: 2103: 2083: 2063: 2043: 2023: 2003: 1973: 1953: 1933: 1913: 1893: 1873: 1843: 1823: 1803: 1783: 1763: 1743: 1713: 1693: 1673: 1653: 1633: 1605: 944: 919: 884: 825: 739: 702: 673: 353: 231: 49: 42: 37: 1548:("to share": low tone), 577:Urban Areas in Northern 44:Zarma ciine, zarma sanni 3396:Tersis, Nicole. (1981) 2803:) and the subjunctive ( 2658: 2570: 2506: 2435: 2371: 1445:but more palatalized), 1441:(approximately English 1430:, the exceptions being 998:Lexical tone and stress 442:Geographic distribution 435:use in their language. 106:6.0 million (2021) 3389:Hamani, Abdou. (1982) 3382:Hamani, Abdou. (1980) 3009:works with all verbs. 2853:Emphasized completive 355:This article contains 2799:), the incompletive ( 2774:hasaraw hinko kulu ra 2772:("my two children"); 3974:Marwari (Rajasthani) 3439:Webster's Dictionary 2640:English Translation 1483:⟩ is spelled 329: Zarma language 3605:Immigrant languages 3236:voice good-DEF know 3062:subject–object–verb 2820: 2482: 2347: 1592: 1090: 1051:Trans-Saharan trade 497:and communities in 304:Tondi Songway Kiini 4288:Languages of Niger 3503:National languages 3480:Languages of Niger 3087:(drinking water), 2968:Ni do no ay ga koy 2948:Ay ma ka ti Yakuba 2818: 2805:afiri ŋwaaray nufa 2480: 2345: 1590: 1512:⟨ty⟩ 1508:⟨ky⟩ 1492:⟨rr⟩ 1485:⟨ny⟩ 1088: 958:⟨rr⟩ 245:Northwest Songhay: 4293:Songhay languages 4275: 4274: 3761: 3760: 3674:Songhay languages 3640: 3639: 3487:Official language 3400:. 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Index

Jerma language
Niger
Mali
Burkina Faso
Nigeria
West Africa
Zarma
Language family
Nilo-Saharan
Songhay
Southern
Songhoyboro Ciine
Writing system
Arabic
Ajami
Braille
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ISO 639-3
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Songhay languages
Korandje
Koyra Chiini
Tadaksahak
Tasawaq
Tagdal
Tondi Songway Kiini
Humburi Senni

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