Interview of Haruna Danladi by Sunday M. Dariya Session organised in the author's study in Tundun Wada (Bauchi State, Nigeria)
Saya (Zaar)
Chadic language. 150 000 speakers in the south of Bauchi State Local variety represented in the recording : Zaar of Bogoro
Religion
1st language : Zaar 2nd language : Hausa
81 years old male. One of the respected elders of the village. Early Christian convert.
1st language : Zaar Regional language : Hausa Education & working language : English
Zaar : mother tongue
Regional language. Chadic language
Education language (secondary school).
Language assistant and contact person in the village. Son to the village head.
1st language. Not used in the session.
Fluent. Communication language with English-speaking collaborators.
Near-fluent. Communication language with villagers.
Basic. For basic communication with older speakers of Zaar.
Collector and annotator with the help of M.S. Davan, language assistant.
Trilingual : Zaar - Hausa - English
Language assistant to the author
Annotated in Elan
Sound-aligned broad phonetic transcription, free translation, and morpho-syntactic labelling in Elan format, using Leipzig glossing rules.