The proposed western division contains Djenné Chiini and–most prominently–Koyra Chiini (KCh) (meaning "town language"[1]), which is the local language of the historically eminent university town of Timbuktu in Mali (Tumbutu).
(In 2009, an official Malian government population estimate for the Djerma people residing in Mali is 3,300,000.)
Downriver from Zarma in the country of Benin is Dendi, heavily influenced by the neighboring Bariba language of the Niger–Congo family.
Another Eastern Southern dialect called Tondi Songway Kiini (TSK) (meaning "mountain Songhay language").
Among the Malian Songhay languages, Tondi Songway Kiini is the only one with lexical tones, and in several ways it seems to be the most conservatively evolved member.