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]
Yedina | |
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Buduma | |
Native to | Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria |
Ethnicity | Buduma people |
Native speakers | (55,000 cited 1993 census)[1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bdm |
Glottolog | budu1265 |
ELP | Buduma |
200 speakers live in Cameroon, and the rest live in Chad.[2]
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ a b Yedina at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ 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
edit- 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