Yedina
Buduma
Native toChad, Cameroon, Nigeria
Native speakers
(55,000 cited 1993 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Buduma
  • Kuri
Language codes
ISO 639-3bdm
Glottologbudu1265
ELPBuduma

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.[1]

200 speakers live in Cameroon, and the rest live in Chad.[2]

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Notes

  1. ^ a b Yedina at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069.

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