| Zari | |
| Region: | Bauchi State, Plateau State |
| Ethnicity: | 20,700 (2000) |
| Extinct: | 2000 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Afro-Asiatic |
| Fam2: | Chadic |
| Fam3: | West |
| Fam4: | Barawa (B.3) |
| Fam5: | Zaar |
| Iso3: | zaz |
| Glotto: | zari1242 |
| Glottorefname: | Zari |
| Dia1: | Zakshi (Zaksa) |
| Dia2: | Boto (Boot, Bibot) |
| Dia3: | Zari (Kopti, Kwapm) |
Zari (Zariwa) is a Chadic dialect cluster of Nigeria. Blench (2019) lists varieties as Zari, Zakshi, and Boto.[1]
Although there is an ethnic population of about 20,000, the last speaker had already died by 2000 (Campbell and Belew 2018).