Daka is member of the Northern Bantoid branch of the Benue-Congo language family. It is spoken by about 120,000 people in northern Nigeria, in particularly it is spoken in the south of Adamawa State in the North-East region of Nigeria.
Daka is also known as Dakka, Dekka, Deng or Tikk. Dialects include Chamba Daka, Dirim, Lamja, Dengsa and Tola. Chamba Daka, which is also known as Samba Daka or sámá mūm, is spoken by about 90% of Daka speakers and has three varieties: Samba Jangani, Samba Nnakenyare and Samba of Mapeo. The other dialects are classified as closely related but separate languages in some sources.
Download an alphabet chart for Daka (Excel)
Details of the Daka alphabet provide by Wolfram Siegel (PDF)
Information about Daka
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daka_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamba_people
http://www.language-archives.org/language/ccg
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/samb1311
https://www.rblanguesdafrique.info/sama.html
https://www.rblanguesdafrique.info/phonology_tonology.pdf
Abon, Bafanji, Bebe, Bekwarra, Daka, Ipulo, Isu, Jagham, Jarawa, Kemezung, Kenyang, Ki, Koshin, Kung, Mambila, Mbe, Mbuʼ, Medumba, Metaʼ, Mundabli-Mufu, Mundani, Mungbam, Naki, Ndoola, Ngwo, Noni, Nizaa, Pinyin, Saari, Tiv, Vute, Weh, Yambeta
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created 12.02.26. Last modified: 12.02.26
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