- Bade language
Infobox Language
name=Bade
speakers=250,000 (1993)
states=Nigeria
region=Yobe State ,Jigawa State
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Chadic
fam3=West Chadic
fam4=B
fam5=B.1
fam6=Bade
iso3=bdeBade (also spelled Bede or Bedde) is a West Chadic language spoken by the Bade people in
Yobe State andJigawa State ,Nigeria . There are three major dialects of Bade,Western Bade ,Gashua Bade , andSouthern Bade . Speakers are shifting to Hausa. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]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.External links
* [http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/aflang/Bade/bade.html Bade research page at
UCLA ]Notes
Further reading
* Russell G. Schuh. 1977. "Bade/Ngizim determiner system," "Afroasiatic Linguistics" 4:1-74.
References
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bdm Ethnologue entry for Buduma]
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