Harshen Daza

Daza (wanda aka fi sani da Dazaga ) yare ne na rukunin harsunan Nilo-Saharan da al'ummar Daza (wani rukuni ne na mutanen Toubou ) mazauna arewacin Chadi da gabashin Nijar ke magana. ^[2] Ana kuma san Daza da Gouran (Gorane) a Chadi. ^[2] Dazaga yana magana da kusan mutane 700,000, musamman a yankin hamadar Djurab da yankin Borkou, wanda ake kira Haya ko Faya-Largeau arewa ta tsakiyar Chadi, babban birnin mutanen Dazaga. Ana magana da Dazaga a tsaunin Tibesti na Chadi (masu magana 606,000), a gabashin Nijar kusa da N'guigmi da kuma arewa (masu magana 93,200). ^[2] Har ila yau, ana magana da shi kadan a Libya da kuma a Sudan, inda akwai al'umma mai magana 3,000 a birnin Omdurman ƴan ƙasashen waje da ke aiki a Jeddah, Saudi Arabia .

Yaruka na farko na harshen Dazaga guda biyu sune Daza da Kara, amma akwai wasu yarukan da dama da suke fahimtar juna, wadanda suka hada da Kaga, Kanobo, Taruge da Azza. Yana da alaƙa ta kut da kut da yaren Tedaga, wanda Teda ke magana, ɗayan daga cikin ƙungiyoyin mutanen Toubou guda biyu, waɗanda galibi ke zaune a tsaunin Tibesti na arewacin Chadi da kuma kudancin Libya kusa da birnin Sabha.^[3]

Dazaga yaren Nilo-Saharan ne kuma memba ne na reshen sahara na yammacin sahara na kungiyar sahara wanda kuma ya kunshi yaren Kanuri da Kanembu da harsunan Tebu . An kuma raba Tebu zuwa Tedaga da Dazaga. Reshen Saharan Gabashin ya ƙunshi yaren Zaghawa da harshen Berti.^[4]

1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Harshen Daza". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Daza at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
3. ↑ Greenberg, Joseph H. 1963. The languages of Africa. International Journal of American Linguistics 29.1. Repr. The Hague: Mouton, 1966.
4. ↑ Cyffer, Norbert. 2000. Linguistic properties of the Saharan languages. Areal and Genetic Factors in Language Classification and Description: Africa South of the Sahara, ed. by Petr Zima, 30–59. Lincom Studies in African Linguistics 47. München: Lincom Europa