Dangaléat

DAA

developing

Alternate Names: Danal, Dangal, Dangla

Dialects: Central Dangaléat, East Dangaléat, West Dangaléat (Karbo, Korbo). Intelligibility between east and west dialects is low, but central dialect well understood.

Genealogy:

Afro-Asiatic
Chadic
East
B
B.1
1

Demographics: 60,000 (2005 SIL), increasing. 45,000 in Dangaléat Canton.

Language Use: Also use Chadian Spoken Arabic [shu]. Used as L2 by Zerenkel [zrn].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 1%–5%. Literacy rate in L2: Below 5%. Pre-school. Taught in primary schools. Poetry. Dictionary. NT: 2012.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Chad

Other Comments: Muslim, Christian.