Teda
Tedaga
Native to	Chad , Libya , Niger [1]
Region	BET , Kanem , Tibesti , Murzuq , Agadez
Ethnicity	Teda
Native speakers	130,000 (2020?2024) [1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan ? Saharan Western Tebu Teda
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tuq
Glottolog	teda1241
ELP	Tedaga
Linguasphere	02-BAA-aa

The Teda language , also known as Tedaga, Todaga, Todga, or Tudaga is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Teda, a northern subgroup of the Toubou people who inhabit southern Libya , northern Chad and eastern Niger . A small number also inhabit northeastern Nigeria . ^[1]

Along with the more populous southern dialect of Daza , the northern Teda dialect constitutes one of the two varieties of Tebu . However, Teda is also sometimes used for Tebu in general.

References [ edit ]

• 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 (centra?nosaxarskaja sem’ja jazykov) i ee geneti?eskie vzaimootno?enija (?timologi?eskij i fonologi?eskij aspekt). Moskva: PhD. Dissertation (Rossijskij gosudarstvennyj gumanitarnyj universitet).
• Haggar, Inouss & K. Walters 2005. Lexique tubu (dazaga)-francais et glossaire francais-tubu . Niamey: SIL, Niger.
• Jourdan, P. 1935. Notes grammaticales et vocabulaire de la langue Daza . London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Trubner.
• Le Cœur, C. 1950. Dictionnaire ethnographique teda, precede d’un lexique francais-teda . Dakar: IFAN.
• Le Cœur, C., and M. Le Cœur 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.
• Audio records of Daza-Teda languages, 1946 (being digitized soon) : http://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/collections/CNRSMH_I_1950_002/

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