Explore Chadic through 9 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like chad or afroasiatic. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Chadic in a sentence
Chadic meaning
A branch of the Afroasiatic language family spoken across northern Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic and Cameroon.
Synonyms of Chadic
Using Chadic
- The main meaning on this page is: A branch of the Afroasiatic language family spoken across northern Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic and Cameroon.
- Useful related words include: chad, chadic language, afroasiatic, afro-asiatic.
- In the example corpus, chadic often appears in combinations such as: chadic and, and chadic.
Context around Chadic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Chadic
- In this selection, "chadic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, east, regards, cushitic, branches, berber and language stand out and add context to how "chadic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include berber with chadic and egyptian and branches cushitic chadic berber egyptian. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "chadic" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with chadic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Chadic branch is distributed in Central and West Africa. (10 words)
He regards Chadic and Omotic as the branches of Afroasiatic most remote from the others. (15 words)
Tonal languages are also found in the Omotic, Chadic, and South & East Cushitic branches of Afroasiatic. (16 words)
Leo Reinisch (1909) proposed linking Cushitic and Chadic, while urging a more distant affinity to Egyptian and Semitic, thus foreshadowing Greenberg, but his suggestion found little resonance. (27 words)
He thus divided Afroasiatic into two major branches, Omotic and Erythraean, with Erythraean consisting of three sub-branches, Cushitic, Chadic-Berber-Egyptian-Semitic-Beja, and Ongota. (26 words)
Marcel Cohen (1924) rejected the idea of a distinct Hamitic subgroup and included Hausa (a Chadic language) in his comparative Hamito-Semitic vocabulary. (23 words)
Example sentences (9)
According to Ehret (1996), tonal languages appear in the Omotic and Chadic branches of Afroasiatic, as well as in certain Cushitic languages.
Further subbranching, however, has not been as robust; Blench (2006), for example, only accepts the A/B bifurcation of East Chadic.
He regards Chadic and Omotic as the branches of Afroasiatic most remote from the others.
He thus divided Afroasiatic into two major branches, Omotic and Erythraean, with Erythraean consisting of three sub-branches, Cushitic, Chadic-Berber-Egyptian-Semitic-Beja, and Ongota.
Leo Reinisch (1909) proposed linking Cushitic and Chadic, while urging a more distant affinity to Egyptian and Semitic, thus foreshadowing Greenberg, but his suggestion found little resonance.
Marcel Cohen (1924) rejected the idea of a distinct Hamitic subgroup and included Hausa (a Chadic language) in his comparative Hamito-Semitic vocabulary.
Otherwise: * Paul Newman (1980) groups Berber with Chadic and Egyptian with Semitic, while questioning the inclusion of Omotic in Afroasiatic.
The Chadic branch is distributed in Central and West Africa.
Tonal languages are also found in the Omotic, Chadic, and South & East Cushitic branches of Afroasiatic.
Common combinations with chadic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: