Humburi Senni (humburi ciini / هُمْبُرِ ٺِينِ‎)

Humburi Senni is a member of the Southern Songhay branch of the Nilosaharan language family. It is spoken by about 81,000 people mainly in southern Mali, and also in northeastern Burkina Faso. In particular it is spoken in and around Hombori, a town in the Cercle of Douentza in the Mopti Region of Mali, and in and around the town of Dori in the Sahel Region of Séno Province in the northeast of Burkina Faso.

Humburi Senni is also known as Central Songhay, Humburi Senni Songhay or Songhay of Hombori. The language spoken in Burkina Faso is either a dialect of Humburi Senni, or a closely related language. There are ways to write Humburi Senni with the Arabic and Latin scripts.

Latin alphabet for Humburi Senni

Latin alphabet for Humburi Senni

Arabic alphabet for Humburi Senni

Arabic alphabet for Humburi Senni

Download alphabet charts for Humburi Senni (Excel)

Sample video

Links

Information about Humburi Senni
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humburi_Senni_language
https://ldh.clld.org/languages/hmb
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/117647/Grammar of Humburi Senni downsized.pdf
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/humb1243

Songhay languages

Dendi, Humburi Senni, Tadasahak, Zarma

Languages written with the Arabic script

Adamaua Fulfulde, Aer, Afrikaans, Arabic (Algerian), Arabic (Bedawi), Arabic (Chadian), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Gulf), Arabic (Hassaniya), Arabic (Hejazi), Arabic (Lebanese), Arabic (Libyan), Arabic (Modern Standard), Arabic (Moroccan), Arabic (Najdi), Arabic (Sudanese), Arabic (Syrian), Arabic (Tunisian), Arwi, Äynu, Azeri, Balanta-Ganja, Balti, Baluchi, Beja, Belarusian, Bosnian, Brahui, Chagatai, Chechen, Chittagonian, Comorian, Crimean Tatar, Dameli, Dargwa, Dari, Dhatki, Dogri, Domari, Gawar Bati, Gawri, Gilaki, Hausa, Hazaragi, Hindko, Humburi Senni, Indus Kohistani, Kabyle, Kalkoti, Karachay-Balkar, Karakalpak, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khowar, Khorasani Turkic, Khwarezmian, Konkani, Kumzari, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lezgi, Lop, Luri, Maasina Fulfulde, Maba, Maguindanao, Malay, Malay (Terengganu), Mandinka, Marwari, Mazandarani, Mogholi, Morisco, Mozarabic, Munji, Noakhailla, Nubi, Ormuri, Palula, Parkari Koli, Pashto, Persian/Farsi, Punjabi, Qashqai, Rajasthani, Rohingya, Salar, Saraiki, Sawi, Serer, Shabaki, Shina, Shughni, Sindhi, Somali, Soninke, Tatar, Tausūg, Tawallammat Tamajaq, Tayart Tamajeq, Ternate, Torwali, Turkish, Urdu, Ushoji, Uyghur, Uzbek, Wakhi, Wanetsi, Wolof, Xiao'erjing, Yidgha

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

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