| songhay, songhay-ciini, songay, songoi, sonrai, songhai, sonrhai, koroboro, koira-kine, in [51=] Français: songhaï, songhoï # kine = «language»; koira-kine =«country language» ⊕ former extension (during empire of the Askias in the 16 century): from upstream of Djenné to the present-day frontier of Nigeria and northward into the Sahara as far as the Taghaza, Terhazza oasis |