Buduma (language)

Buduma
Spoken in	Cameroon , Niger , Nigeria , Chad
speaker	54,800
Linguistic ; classification	Afro-Asian Chadian Biu-Mandara Buduma ;
Official status
Recognized minority / ; regional language in	Niger
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	-
ISO 639-3	bdm

Map of the Buduma language area in Niger

Buduma (alternative spelling: Boudouma ; also: Yedina ) is a Chadian language spoken by the Buduma people of the same name on Lake Chad in West Africa .

The language is common in the four countries bordering Lake Chad. According to the 1993 census, 51,600 Buduma speakers live in the Lac region in Chad . In the state of Borno in Nigeria are about 3,000 people in the region and Extrême-Nord in Cameroon about 200 people budumasprachig. In Niger, where the language area is in the Diffa region , Buduma has the status of a national language . A northern, a southern and a central dialect can be distinguished. The central dialect combines peculiarities of the northern and southern dialect. While all three dialects are used in Chad, the northern dialect is common in Niger, the central dialect in Nigeria, and the southern dialect in Cameroon. Buduma vocabulary and syntax are heavily influenced by Kanuri . 60% of Buduma speakers also use Kanembu , around half also use Central Kanuri . Some also use Chadian Arabic .

literature

Elhadji Ari Awagana: Grammar of Buduma. Phonology, morphology, syntax (= contributions to African studies . Volume 13 ). LIT, Münster / Hamburg / Berlin / London 2002, ISBN 3-8258-5644-5 .
Johannes Lukas: The language of the Buduma in Central Sudan, based on own studies and the estate of Gustav Nachtigal (= treatises for the knowledge of the Orient . Volume 24 , no. 2 ). Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft / Kommissionsverlag FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1939.

Web links

Buduma . In: Ethnologue . SIL International, 2013 (English).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Buduma. In: Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Seventeenth edition. SIL International, 2013, accessed August 5, 2013 .
↑ Maman Mallam Garba: Education bilingue au Niger: entre convivialité et conflits linguistiques . In: Penser la francophonie: concepts, actions et outils linguistiques. Actes des Premières Journées scientifiques communes des Réseaux de Chercheurs concernant la langue . Éditions des Archives Contemporaines, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-914610-25-4 , pp. 456 .
↑ Elhadji Ari Awagana: Grammar of Buduma. Phonology, morphology, syntax (= contributions to African studies . Volume 13 ). LIT, Münster / Hamburg / Berlin / London 2002, ISBN 3-8258-5644-5 , pp. 8-9 .
↑ Elhadji Ari Awagana: Grammar of Buduma. Phonology, morphology, syntax (= contributions to African studies . Volume 13 ). LIT, Münster / Hamburg / Berlin / London 2002, ISBN 3-8258-5644-5 , pp. 6 .

[SIL_Buduma-1] Buduma. In: Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Seventeenth edition. SIL International, 2013, accessed August 5, 2013 .

[2] Maman Mallam Garba: Education bilingue au Niger: entre convivialité et conflits linguistiques . In: Penser la francophonie: concepts, actions et outils linguistiques. Actes des Premières Journées scientifiques communes des Réseaux de Chercheurs concernant la langue . Éditions des Archives Contemporaines, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-914610-25-4 , pp. 456 .

[3] Elhadji Ari Awagana: Grammar of Buduma. Phonology, morphology, syntax (= contributions to African studies . Volume 13 ). LIT, Münster / Hamburg / Berlin / London 2002, ISBN 3-8258-5644-5 , pp. 8-9 .

[4] Elhadji Ari Awagana: Grammar of Buduma. Phonology, morphology, syntax (= contributions to African studies . Volume 13 ). LIT, Münster / Hamburg / Berlin / London 2002, ISBN 3-8258-5644-5 , pp. 6 .