Buduma language

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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
שפת בודומה
Name (Latin)
Buduma language
Name (Arabic)
لغة بودوما
Other forms of name
Bouddouma language
Boudouma language
Budduma language
Yedima language
Yedina language
Yidana language
Yidena language
See Also From tracing topical name
Chadic languages
See Also From tracing place name
Africa, West
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q56287
Library of congress: sh 97001806
Sources of Information
  • Lukas, J. Die Sprache der Buduma im zentralen Sudan, auf Grund eigener Studien und des Nachlasses, 1939.
  • Ethnologue(Buduma, Yidena, Yedima, Yedina, Yidana)
  • Voegelin lang.:p. 107 (Buduma=Budduma=Bouddouma=Yidena=Yedina)
  • Fivaz. African lang., 1977:p. 75 (Buduma (Budduma, Bouddouma))
Wikipedia description:

Yedina, also known as Buduma (Boudouma), is a Chadic language of the Biu–Mandara branch spoken around Lake Chad in western Chad and neighbouring Cameroon and Nigeria. 200 speakers live in Cameroon, and the rest live in Chad.

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