Definition of Songhai

1. Noun. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Songhai in Mali and Niger.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Songhai

Son of Sam laws
Sonchus
Sonchus oleraceus
Sondermann
Sondermann's canal
Sondheim
Sondrio
Song
Song Dynasty
Song Sol.
Song dynasty
Song of Sol.
Song of Solomon
Song of Songs
Song of the Three Holy Children
Songhai (current term)
Songo fever
Songun
Sonia
Sonjo
Sonne
Sonne bacillus
Sonne dysentery
Sonny
Sonny Liston
Sonoma
Sonora
Sonora gum
Sonora lac
Sonora semiannulata

Literary usage of Songhai

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Environment, Water Resources and Agricultural Policies: Lessons from China by China Nong ye bu (2006)
"WATER RESOURCES AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN CHINA: THE PRESENT SITUATION Ma Xiaohe, Department of Economic System Reform and Fang Songhai, School of ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1905)
"Ruins of the Songhai Capital of ... tbe old capital of the Songhai empire, as to the position of which much difference of opinion has prevailed. ..."

3. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1851)
"The language of the natives is Je>ma, »r Songhai. ... The natives speak the Songhai language. There is a considerable market held here on Saturdays. ..."

4. The History and Description of Africa: And of the Notable Things Therein by Robert Brown, John Pory, Leo (1896)
"It was Leo who first made the word Songhai (Sungai) familiar to Europe, ... Timbuktu means in the Songhai language a hollow, and perhaps got the name from ..."

5. The History and Description of Africa: And of the Notable Things Therein by Leo, Robert Brown, John Pory (1896)
"It was Leo who first made the word Songhai (Sungai) familiar to Europe, ... Timbuktu means in the Songhai language a hollow, and perhaps got the name from ..."

6. Glossary of Geographical and Topographical Terms: And of Words of Frequent by Alexander Knox (1904)
"a tower. Gun (Japan), a division of the country. Gun (Songhai), a gulf. Gun. See Gyun. Guna (Chad L. region), little, ..."

7. The Lure of Africa by Cornelius Howard Patton (1917)
"The Songhai, in turn, converted the great Fula tribe, which occupied the ... The Songhai also -won over the Mandingos of Senegambia on the west coast. ..."

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