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ISO 639-3 · saysay
Afroasiatic family

Saya

Saya is a language of the South Bauchi branch (Afroasiatic), spoken in Nigeria. Wikidata counts about 300,000 speakers (2013).

6a · Vigorous300,000
Wikidata recordGlottolog
At a glance
ISO 639-3
say
Glottocode
saya1246
Wikipedia
7 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
—scripts
5levels in the tree
6aEGIDS level

Facts

NameSaya
Also calledSaya language, Zaar
All speakers300,000 (2013)

Vitality

EGIDS 6a Vigorous6a

Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.

Other languages at this level
family tree

From Afroasiatic to Saya

The branches above Saya, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.

309Afroasiaticfamily147Chadicbranch54West Chadicbranch23West Chadic Bbranch15South BauchibranchsaySayalanguage
where it is spoken

Countries

Nigeria415 languages in the index

Also spoken in Nigeria

engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalpcmNigerian Pidginunclassified · 47.5 m3 · Wider CommunicationhauHausaAfroasiatic · 43.9 m2 · ProvincialyorYorubaNiger–Congo · 40 m2 · ProvincialiboIgboNiger–Congo · 27 m2 · ProvincialkauKanuriNilo-Saharan · 15 mfuvNigerian FulfuldeNiger–Congo · 14.5 m3 · Wider CommunicationkncCentral KanuriNilo-Saharan · 9.3 m3 · Wider CommunicationefiEfikNiger–Congo · 2.7 m3 · Wider CommunicationshuChadian Arabicunclassified · 2.6 m3 · Wider Communication