The
Zaghawa language is a
Saharan language spoken by the
Zaghawa people of eastern central
Chad (in the
Sahel) and northwestern
Sudan (
Darfur). The people who speak this language call it
Beria, from
Beri, the
endonym of the Zaghawa people, and "a," Zaghawa for 'mouth.' It has been estimated that there are between 75,000 to 350,000 Zaghawa language speakers who primarily live in
Chad and the Darfur region of Sudan.