Buduma language

Buduma language

language
name=Buduma
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria
speakers=54,800 (1993)
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Chadic
fam3=Biu-Mandara
fam4=B
fam5=B.1
iso3=bdm

Buduma (also known as Boudouma, Yidena, Yedima, Yedina, Yidana) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in western Chad and neghboring Cameroon and Nigeria. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

Notes

References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bdm Ethnologue entry for Buduma]
* 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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