Teda language

Teda
Tedaga
Native to	Chad, Libya, Niger[1]
Region	BET, Kanem, Tibesti, Murzuq, Agadez
Ethnicity	Teda
Native speakers	130,000 (2020–2024)[2]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Saharan Western Tebu Teda
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tuq
Glottolog	teda1241
ELP	Tedaga
Linguasphere	02-BAA-aa

The Teda language, also known as Tedaga, Todaga, Todga, or Tudaga is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Teda, a northern subgroup of the Toubou people who inhabit southern Libya, northern Chad and eastern Niger. A small number also inhabit northeastern Nigeria.^[3]

Along with the more populous southern dialect of Daza, the northern Teda dialect constitutes one of the two varieties of Tebu. However, Teda is also sometimes used for Tebu in general.

References

• Barth, Heinrich 1854. Schreiben an Prof. Lepsius über die Beziehung der Kanori- und Teda-Sprachen. Zeitschrift fur Erdkunde, 2: 372-74, 384-87.
• Chonai, Hassan 1998. Gruppa teda-kanuri (centraľnosaxarskaja sem’ja jazykov) i ee genetičeskie vzaimootnošenija (ėtimologičeskij i fonologičeskij aspekt). Moskva: PhD. Dissertation (Rossijskij gosudarstvennyj gumanitarnyj universitet).
• Haggar, Inouss & K. Walters 2005. Lexique tubu (dazaga)-français et glossaire français-tubu. Niamey: SIL, Niger.
• Jourdan, P. 1935. Notes grammaticales et vocabulaire de la langue Daza. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Trubner.
• Le Cœur, C. 1950. Dictionnaire ethnographique téda, précédé d’un lexique français-téda. Dakar: IFAN.
• Le Cœur, C., and M. Le Cœur 1956. Grammaire et textes teda-daza. Memoires de l’IFAN 46. Dakar: Institut Français d’Afrique Noire.
• Lukas, Johannes 1951-52. Umrisse einer ostsaharanischen Sprachgruppe. Afrika und Übersee, 36: 3-7.
• Lukas, Johannes 1953. Die Sprache der Tubu in der zentralen Sahara. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
• Audio records of Daza-Teda languages, 1946 (being digitized soon) : http://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/collections/CNRSMH_I_1950_002/

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