Yedina language

Chadic language
Yedina
Buduma
Native toChad, Cameroon, Nigeria
Native speakers
(55,000 cited 1993 census)[1]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Dialects
  • Buduma
  • Kuri
Language codes
ISO 639-3bdm
Glottologbudu1265
ELPBuduma

Yedina, also known as Buduma (Boudouma), is a Chadic language of the Biu–Mandara branch spoken around Lake Chad in western Chad and neighbouring Cameroon and Nigeria.[1]

200 speakers live in Cameroon, and the rest live in Chad.[2]

See also

  • Buduma people

Notes

  1. ^ a b Yedina at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069.

References

  • Louise McKone. 1993. "A Phonological Description of Yedəna (Buduma), Language of Lake Chad," University of Texas at Arlington MA thesis.
  • Elhadji Ari Awagana. 2001. "Grammatik des Buduma: Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntax," LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, ISBN 3825856445
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