Tedaga
| Tedaga | ||
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Spoken in |
Chad , Niger , Nigeria , Libya | |
| speaker | approx. 42,500 | |
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| Official language in | - | |
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| ISO 639-3 |
tuq |
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Tedaga is the language of the Teda ethnic group .
It is one of the Saharan languages within the Nilo- Saharan language phylum and is spoken by around 42,500 people in Chad , Niger , Libya and Nigeria . In Chad, the language area of around 28,500 speakers is located in the Borkou , Ennedi and Kanem regions and in the area around Bardaï in the Tibesti region . In Niger, the language is used by around 10,000 speakers in the departments of Bilma and N'Guigmi . In Libya, Tedaga has around 2000 speakers in al-Qatrun and in the southwestern border area. In Nigeria, Tedaga is spoken by around 2000 people in a few villages in the northeast of the state of Borno .
The language is closely related to the Daza Dazaga , around 67% of the vocabulary of both languages is similar. Dazaga is used by the Tedaga speakers as a second language in addition to Arabic .
The peoples Teda and Daza are grouped under the name Tubu .
literature
- Charles Le Coeur: Dictionnaire ethnographique Téda. Précédé d'un lexique français – téda . Larose, Paris 1950.
- Charles Le Coeur, Marguerite Le Coeur: Grammaire et textes téda-daza . IFAN, Dakar 1956.
- Leo Reinisch : The Uniform Origin of the Languages of the Ancient World. Proven by comparing the African, Erytrean and Indo-European languages based on the Teda . Sendet, Wiesbaden 1968 (first edition: 1873).