Bade language
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| Bade | ||
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| Spoken in: | Nigeria | |
| Total speakers: | 200000 | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Chadic West Chadic B West Chadic B.1 Bade Proper Bade |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | bde | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Bade (also spelled Bede or Bedde) is a West Chadic language spoken by the Bade people in Yobe State, Nigeria. There are approximately 200,000 Bade speakers. There are three major dialects of Bade, Western Bade, Gashua Bade, and Southern Bade.
Bade is a tonal language. Each syllable of a noun is specified for high, low, rising, or falling tone. However, verbs are assigned tones based on their tense.
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