Zari language

Zari
Zari
Region	Bauchi State, Plateau State
Ethnicity	20,700 (2000)
Extinct	2000
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Barawa (B.3) Zaar Zari; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Zakshi (Zaksa); Boto (Boot, Bibot); Zari (Kopti, Kwapm);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zaz
Glottolog	zari1242
ELP	Zari

Last updated January 15, 2026

Zari (Zariwa) is a Chadic dialect cluster of Nigeria. Blench (2019) lists varieties as Zari, Zakshi, and Boto.^[2]

Although there is an ethnic population of about 20,000, the last speaker had already died by 2000 (Campbell and Belew 2018).

References

1 2 Zari at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

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[e25-1] 1 2 Zari at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[BlenchAtlas4-2] Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

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