Day language

Day
Native to	southern Chad
Native speakers	50,000 (1993 census)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Mbum–Day Day
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`dai`
Glottolog	`dayy1236`^[2]

Day is an Adamawa language of southern Chad, spoken by 50,000 or so people. Ethnologue reports that its dialects are mutually intelligible, but Blench (2004) lists Ndanga, Njira, Yani, Takawa as apparently separate languages.

References

↑ Day at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Day". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Roger Blench, 2004. List of Adamawa languages (ms)

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