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    Koyraboro Senni (Koroboro Senni, Koyra Senni or Gao Senni) is a member of the Songhay languages of Mali and is spoken by some 400,000 people along the...
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    capital city, Niamey. Koyraboro Senni, with 400,000 speakers, is the language of the town of Gao, the seat of the old Songhai Empire. Koyra Chiini is...
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    of Koyraboro Senni spoken in Gao is unintelligible to speakers of the Zarma dialect of Niger, according to at least one report. The Songhay languages are...
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    Mali (category Articles containing Koyraboro Senni Songhai-language text)
    The expanding Songhai Empire absorbed the empire in 1468,[not verified in body] followed by a Saadian army which defeated the Songhai in 1591. In the...
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    Humburi Senni, or Central Songhay, is a variety of Southern Songhai spoken in the Hombori region, straddling the Burkina–Mali border. Table below illustrates...
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    gives way relatively abruptly to another Songhay language, Koyraboro Senni. Unlike most Songhai languages, Koyra Chiini has no phonemic tones and has subject–verb–object...
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  • language of Niger. The languages are, approximately from upstream to downstream: Koyra Chiini Humburi Senni Tondi Kiini Koyraboro Senni Songhoyboro Ciine Zarma...
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  • Can a Language Be?" in ed. Derek Nurse, Historical Language Contact in Africa, Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. Heath, Jeffrey. 1999. A grammar of Koyraboro (Koroboro)...
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    Songhay language used as a trade language across northern Benin (along the Niger River. It forms a dialect cluster with Zarma and Koyraboro Senni but it...
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    differences. Additionally, in Mali, they are recognized as the Koyraboro. The Songhai originally were the descendants and partisans of the Sonni dynasty...
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