[1] It is also spoken to a smaller extent in Libya and in Sudan, where there is a community of 3,000 speakers in the city of Omdurman.

It is closely related to the Tedaga language, spoken by the Teda, the other out of the two Toubou people groups, who reside primarily in the Tibesti Mountains of northern Chad and in southern Libya near the city of Sabha.

The majority of Dazaga speakers are bilingual or multilingual in their native tongue along with either Arabic, French, Zaghawa, Hausa, Zarma, Kanuri or Tuareg.

For example, the word for "thank you" is borrowed from Arabic shokran and incorporated into the language by usually being followed by the suffix -num marking the second person.

For this reason, there is debate as to whether these truly represent 4 distinct tonemes or if instead Dagaza has a pitch accent system.

The Daza language exhibits a subject-object-verb word order, as can be seen in the following example:[4]à̰ʊ̰́à̰ʊ̰́manáɪ̀áɪ̀thisdɪ́lɪ̀mɪ̀dɪ́lɪ̀m=ɪ̀leprosy=ERG[káá]kɛ́ɛ́-ahand-PL[sʊ́nà]sʊ́n-à3S.POSS-PLɡɔ́ɾʊ̀Ø-j-kɔ́ɾ3.OBJ-3-cutà̰ʊ̰́ áɪ̀ dɪ́lɪ̀mɪ̀ [káá] [sʊ́nà] ɡɔ́ɾʊ̀à̰ʊ̰́ áɪ̀ dɪ́lɪ̀m=ɪ̀ kɛ́ɛ́-a sʊ́n-à Ø-j-kɔ́ɾman this leprosy=ERG hand-PL 3S.POSS-PL 3.OBJ-3-cut‘This man, leprosy cut his hands.’There are no grammatical genders in Dagaza, and biological gender is indicated with separate lexical items for male and female.