Editing Daza language (section)

==Vocabulary==
The dialects spoken in Chad and Niger have some [[French language|French]] influence whereas the dialects spoken in Libya and Sudan have more of an [[Arabic]] influence. The Dazaga language was not traditionally a written language but in recent years the [[SIL International|SIL]] had developed an orthography.  The majority of Dazaga speakers are [[bilingual]] or multilingual in their native tongue along with either Arabic, French, Zaghawa, [[Hausa language|Hausa]], [[Zarma language|Zarma]], Kanuri or [[Tuareg languages|Tuareg]]. There are thus many borrowings from other languages such as Arabic, Hausa or French. For example, the word for "thank you" is borrowed from Arabic ''shokran'' and incorporated into the language by usually being followed by the suffix ''-num'' marking the second person.

<br/>The following tables contain words from the Daza dialect spoken in Omdurman, Sudan. This [[romanisation]] is not standard.

===Numbers===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! English !! Dazaga !! English !! Dazaga
|-
| One || Tron|| Eleven || Murdai sa Tron
|-
| Two || Jow || Twelve || Murdai sa Jow
|-
| Three || Aguzo || Thirteen || Murdai sa Aguzo
|-
| Four || Twzo || Fourteen || Murdai sa Twzo
|-
| Five || Foo || Fifteen || Murdai sa Foo
|-
| Six || Disi || Sixteen || Murdai sa Disi
|-
| Seven || Troso || Seventeen || Murdai sa Troso
|-
| Eight || Woso || Eighteen || Murdai sa Woso
|-
| Nine|| Yisi || Nineteen || Murdai sa Yisi
|-
| Ten || Murdum || Twenty || Digiram
|-
| Thirty || Murtta Aguzo || Fifty || Murtta Foo
|-
| Forty || Murtta Twzo || Hundred || Kidri
|}

===Basic words and phrases===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! English !! Dazaga !! English !! Dazaga
|-
| man || Agni|| Good Morning || Wasa Nisira
|-
| woman || Ari || Good Night || Kalar Sizoo
|-
| family || Ama tanga || Thank you || alay barkantchân 
|-
| brother || Dagi || My name is... || Tan Sortanjo
|-
| sister || Duroo || What is your name? || Sornuma Jaa? or sornuma eni'
|-
| papa || Abaa || How are you? || neré wasi?
|-
| mama || Aya || I am well || Kala Layy or Tan Wasu or wasa a'
|-
| friend || Lao|| Please || toussowna 
|-
| world || Dina || Country || Ni
|-
| dead || Noso || Religion || Din
|-
|people||Amma ||Better  || Bouré || 
|-
| East || Mah || West || Jeh
|-
| North ||Yallh||South||Onoum
|}

The Azza are a blacksmith class who speak their own dialect of the language, referred to as Azzanga, which is considered by Dagaza speakers to be lower in status then the standard dialect.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Walters |first=Josiah K. |title=A Grammar of Dazaga |date=2016 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-32391-9 |series=Grammars and sketches of the world's languages Africa}}</ref>