Tags: Ethnic Group.

The Baggāra are a grouping of Arab ethnic groups inhabiting the portion of Africa’s Sahel mainly between Lake Chad and southern Kordofan numbering over one million. They are known as Baggara in Sudan and as Shuwa/Diffa Arabs in Chad and West Africa. Their name derives from the Arabic word (Arabic: بقارة‎) literally meaning Cowman.They have a common language Shuwa Arabic which is one of the regional varieties of Arabic.

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language
Chadian Arabic
population place
Central African Republic, Chad, Niger, Sudan, South Sudan
related
Arab people, Demographics of Chad, Bedouin, Guhayna people, Africans
religion
Sunni Islam

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