Basic Chad Arabic

Basic Chad Arabic

--Samir Abu Absi and André Sinaud

(Intensive Language Training Center, IU)

Chadian Arabic (also known as Shuwa/Shua/Suwa Arabic;Arabic: لهجة تشادية‎, Baggara Arabic, and, most recently, Western Sudanic Arabic) is one of the regional colloquial varieties of Arabic and is the first language of some 1.6 million people, both town dwellers and nomadic cattle herders.

Pre-Speech

1-6

7-11

12-15

16-20

21-22

23-24

25-27

28-31

32-33

34-36

37-39

40-42

43-45

44-46

48-49

50-51

52-54

55-58

59-60

Active

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

32

33

34

35

36

37

38

39

40

41

42

43

44

45

Passive

01-05

06-11

12-14

15-19

20-23

24-27

27

28-36

37-42

43-47

48-52

53-60

1-4

5-6

8

1-7

8-16

17-25

26-35