1. a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa; [syn: Chad, Chadic, Chadic language]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Chadic language
n 1: a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones)
spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north
central Africa [syn: Chad, Chadic, Chadic language]