Dendi (African people)
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Name (Latin)
Dendi (African people)
See Also From tracing topical name
Ethnology Mali
Ethnology Niger
Ethnology Nigeria
Songhai (African people)
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q17073583
Library of congress:
sh 87006864
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Commission Nationale Dendi. La nationalite dendi ... 1986.
- Murdock, G.P. Outline of world culture, 1983:p. 100.
- Voegelin lang.:p. 265.
Wikipedia description:
The Dendi are an ethnic group located in Benin, Niger, Nigeria and northern Togo mainly in the plains of the Niger River. They are part of the Songhai people, and were an integral part of the Songhai Empire as the Dendi province or Dendiganda. Derived from the Songhay language, the term "Dendi" translates to "down the river." The community consists of 195,633 people. Among them, only 4,505 live in Nigeria. In Niger they live in around the city of Gaya. Their mother tongue is Dendi.
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