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Songhay

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Songhay

Summary

Songhay is a language family[1]. Songhay draws 379 Wikipedia views per month (language_family category, ranking #123 of 1,012).[2]

Key Facts

  • Songhay's instance of is recorded as language family[3].
  • Songhay is a type of Nilo-Saharan[4].
  • Songhay's Commons category is recorded as Songhay languages[5].
  • Songhay's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Songhay languages[6].
  • Songhay's topic has template is recorded as Template:Songhay languages[7].
  • Songhay's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SON[8].

Why It Matters

Songhay draws 379 Wikipedia views per month (language_family category, ranking #123 of 1,012).[2] Songhay has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] Songhay is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic has template → Template:Songhay languages
    Instance of → language family
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007558446405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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