Bidiyo language

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Bidiyo
Spoken in: Chad 
Region: south central
Total speakers: 14,000 (1981)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Chadic
  East Chadic
   B
    B.1
     B.1.1
      Bidiyo
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: –
ISO 639-3: bid
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Bidiyo (also known as Bidyo, Bidio, 'Bidio, 'Bidiyo, Bidiyo-Waana, Bidiya) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in south central Chad. [1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

  • Khalil Alio. 1986. Essai de description de la langue bidiya du Guéra (Tchad). Berlin: Reimer.
  • Jacques Fedry. 1977. "Apercu sur la phonologie et la tonologie de quatre langues du groupe Mubi-Karbo (Guera, Dangaleat-est, Dangaleat-ouest, Bidiyo, Dyongor)," Etudes Phonologiques Chadiennes. Ed. J. Caprile. Paris: SELAF. Pages 87-112.
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