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Yedina language

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.

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Yedina
Buduma
Native toChad, Cameroon, Nigeria
EthnicityBuduma people
Native speakers
(55,000 cited 1993 census)1
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

See also

Notes

Notes

  1. 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

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