Teda language

Teda
Tegaga
Native to Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Libya
Region Chad, BET Region, Eastern Niger
Ethnicity Teda people
Native speakers
 43,000  (1993–1998)[1]
Nilo-Saharan?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tuq
Glottolog teda1241[2]
Linguasphere 02-BAA-aa
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The Teda language, Tedaga, belongs to the Saharan subfamily of the Nilo-Saharan, spoken in southern Libya, northern Chad and eastern Niger by the Teda people.

Tebu is used for both the northern dialect (Teda proper) and the southern dialect (Dazaga), but sometimes Teda is used for Tebu.

References

  1. ↑ Teda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tedaga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Barth, Heinrich 1854. Schreiben an Prof. Lepsius uber die Beziehung der Kanori- und Teda-Sprachen. Zeitschrift fur Erdkunde, 2: 372-74, 384-87.

Chonai, Hassan 1998. Gruppa teda-kanuri (centraľnosaxarskaja sem’ja jazykov) i ee genetičeskie vzaimootnošenija (ėtimologičeskij i fonologičeskij aspekt). Moskva: PhD. Dissertation (Rossijskij gosudarstvennyj gumanitarnyj universitet).

Haggar, Inouss & K. Walters 2005. Lexique tubu (dazaga)-français et glossaire français-tubu. Niamey : SIL, Niger.

Jourdan, P. 1935. Notes grammaticales et vocabulaire de la langue Daza. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Trubner.

Le Coeur, C. 1950. Dictionnaire ethnographique téda, précédé d’un lexique français-téda. Dakar: IFAN.

LeCoeur, C., and M. LeCoeur 1956. Grammaire et textes teda-daza. Memoires de l’IFAN 46. Dakar: Institut Francais d’Afrique Noire.

Lukas, Johannes 1951-52. Umrisse einer ostsaharanischen Sprachgruppe. Afrika und Ubersee, 36: 3-7.

Lukas, Johannes 1953. Die Sprache der Tubu in der zentralen Sahara. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.