Misplaced Pages

Guduf-Gava language

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Guduf language) Afro-Asiatic language of Nigeria
Guduf-Gava
Native toNigeria
RegionBorno State
Native speakers56,000 (2000)
Language familyAfro-Asiatic
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3gdf
Glottologgudu1252

Guduf-Gava (also known as Gudupe, Afkabiye) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Borno State, Nigeria. In a 2006 paper, Roger Blench classified Cineni as a dialect.

Blench (2019) lists Cikide as a dialect of Guduf.

Notes

  1. Guduf-Gava at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
  3. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
Languages of Nigeria
Official languages
National languages
Recognised languages
Indigenous languages
Indigenous languages (grouped by Nigerian state)
Adamawa
Akwa Ibom
Bauchi
Bayelsa
Benue
Borno
Cross River
Delta
Edo
Gombe
Jigawa
Kaduna
Kano
Kebbi
Kogi
Kwara
Nasarawa
Niger
Ondo
Plateau
Rivers
Taraba
Yobe
Sign languages
Immigrant languages
Scripts
Biu–Mandara languages
Tera (A.1)
Bura–Higi
Bura–Marghi (A.2)
Higi (A.3)
Others
Wandala
(Mandara) (A.4)
East
West
Others
Mafa (A.5)
Northeast
South (A)
South (B)
South (C)
South (D)
Others
Daba (A.7)
North
South
Bata
(Gbwata) (A.8)
Mandage
(Kotoko) (B.1)
North
South
Others
East–
Central
Munjuk (B.2)
Mida'a (< B.1)
Others
Others
Italics indicate extinct languages. See also: Chadic languages


This article about a Biu-Mandara language is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon

This Nigeria-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: