It has been estimated that there are about 447,400 native speakers of the Zaghawa language, who primarily live in Chad and the Darfur region of Sudan.
[3] There are five tones, high, mid, low, rising, falling, all of which may occur on simple vowels, for example in /ɪ́ɡɪ́/ I watered, /ɪ̌ɡɪ̂/ I said, /ɪ̀ɡɪ̀/ right (direction).
Sometimes known as the camel alphabet, he based the phoneme choice on the Arabic language rather than on Zaghawa.
In 2007, this system of writing was turned into a computer font by Seonil Yun in cooperation with SIL International and the Mission Protestante Franco-Suisse au Tchad.
[4] There is also an Arabic script alphabet under development, based on the Tijani system of writing African languages in the 13th century.