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Zarma people

Джерма · Q148004

language area per Glottologcensus counts
2,300,874
Niger, census 2001 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
Songhay
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Niger: 2,300,874 people in the 2001 census.

Main language: Zarma-Kaado. Glottolog classifies it in the Songhay family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Niger2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Djerma Sonrai» · [1]
2,300,874

Languages and their lineage

Zarma-Kaado

  1. Songhaysong1307
  2. Eastern Songhayeast2431
  3. Zarma-Kaado-Dendizarm1240
  4. Zarma-Kaadozarm1239

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Niger, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)