Buduma language

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Buduma
Spoken in: Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria
Total speakers: 54,800 (1993)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Chadic
  Biu-Mandara
   B
    B.1
     Buduma
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: –
ISO 639-3: bdm
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Buduma (also known as Boudouma, Yidena, Yedima, Yedina, Yidana) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in western Chad and neghboring Cameroon and Nigeria. [1]

[edit] Notes

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

[edit] References

  • Ethnologue entry for Buduma
  • Louise McKone. 1993. "A Phonological Description of Yedəna (Buduma), Language of Lake Chad," University of Texas at Arlington MA thesis.
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