Editing Afroasiatic languages (section)

===Chadic===
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Chadic languages number between 150 and 190, making Chadic the largest family in Afroasiatic by number of extant languages.{{sfn|Meyer|Wolff|2019|p=254}} The Chadic languages are typically divided into three major branches, East Chadic, Central Chadic, and West Chadic.{{sfn|Gragg|2019|p=29}} Most Chadic languages are located in the [[Chad Basin]], with the exception of [[Hausa language|Hausa]].{{sfn|Gragg|2019|p=27}} Hausa is the largest Chadic language by native speakers, and is spoken by a large number of people as a lingua franca in Northern Nigeria.{{sfn|Lipiński|2001|p=39}} It may have as many as 80 to 100 million first and second language speakers.{{sfn|Meyer|Wolff|2019|p=254}} Eight other Chadic languages have around 100,000 speakers; other Chadic languages often have few speakers and may be in danger of going extinct.{{sfn|Güldemann|2018|pp=342–343}} Only about 40 Chadic languages have been fully described by linguists.{{sfn|Meyer|Wolff|2019|p=254}}