Editing Chadic languages (section)

{{Short description|Branch of the Afroasiatic languages}}
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{{Infobox language family
| name          = Chadic
| region        = [[Nigeria]], [[Niger]], [[Chad]], [[Cameroon]]
| protoname     = [[Proto-Afroasiatic language|Proto-Chadic]]
| familycolor   = Afro-asiatic
| child1        = [[Biu–Mandara languages|Biu–Mandara]]
| child2        = [[East Chadic languages|East Chadic]]
| child3        = [[Masa languages|Masa]]
| child4        = [[West Chadic languages|West Chadic]]
| iso5          = cdc
| glotto        = chad1250
| glottorefname = Chadic
| map           = Chadic_languages_in_Africa_map.svg
| mapcaption    = Map of the distribution of the Chadic languages within Africa
| ancestor      = 
| glottoname    = 
| notes         = 
| map2          = Chadic languages map.svg
| mapcaption2   = Detailed map of the distribution of Chadic languages in Western and Central Africa
}}
The '''Chadic languages''' form a branch of the [[Afroasiatic languages|Afroasiatic language family]]. They are spoken in parts of the [[Sahel]]. They include 196 languages<ref name=eth>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/subgroup/555/|title=Chadic Languages; Ethnologue}}</ref> spoken across northern [[Nigeria]], southern [[Niger]], southern [[Chad]], and northern [[Cameroon]]. By far the most widely spoken Chadic language is [[Hausa language|Hausa]], a [[lingua franca]] of much of inland Eastern [[West Africa]], particularly Niger and the northern half of Nigeria. Hausa is the only Chadic language with more than 1 million speakers.