Afro-Asiatic · ISO 639-3 kai
Karekare Language Jalamawa
Karekare is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by about 1.8 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Karekare is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Karekare language
Karekare (Jalamawa) is spoken by about 1.8 million people, which makes it the 333rd most spoken language in the world — just behind Chuvash (1.8 million) and ahead of Lampung Api (1.8 million). It belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family and, more precisely, to the Boleic group within the West Chadic branch.
Where is Karekare spoken?
Karekare is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Nigeria (150,000).
Karekare is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Karekare is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Hausa.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 kai.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.