Bade language
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| Bade | ||
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| Spoken in: | Nigeria | |
| Region: | Yobe State, Jigawa State | |
| Total speakers: | 250,000 (1993) | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Chadic B B.1 Bade 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. | ||
Bade (also spelled Bede or Bedde) is a West Chadic language spoken by the Bade people in Yobe State and Jigawa State, Nigeria. There are three major dialects of Bade, Western Bade, Gashua Bade, and Southern Bade. Speakers are shifting to Hausa. [1]
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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[edit] Notes
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
[edit] Further Reading
- Russell G. Schuh. 1977. "Bade/Ngizim determiner system," Afroasiatic Linguistics 4:1-74.
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