Nilo-Saharan language
The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50–60 million people, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet. T ...
spoken by the Teda, a northern subgroup of the
Toubou people
The Toubou or Tubu (from Old Tebu, meaning "rock people") are an ethnic group native to the Tibesti Mountains that inhabit the central Sahara in northern Chad, southern Libya and northeastern Niger. They live either as herders and nomads or as ...
that inhabits southern
Libya
Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya bo ...
, northern
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...
and eastern
Niger
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, languages_type = National languagesDaza, the northern Teda dialect constitutes one of the two varieties of Tebu. However, Teda is also sometimes used for Tebu in general.
References
* Barth, Heinrich 1854. Schreiben an Prof. Lepsius über die Beziehung der Kanori- und Teda-Sprachen. ''Zeitschrift fur Erdkunde'', 2: 372-74, 384-87.
* Chonai, Hassan 1998. ''Gruppa teda-kanuri (centraľnosaxarskaja sem’ja jazykov) i ee genetičeskie vzaimootnošenija (ėtimologičeskij i fonologičeskij aspekt).'' Moskva: PhD. Dissertation (Rossijskij gosudarstvennyj gumanitarnyj universitet).
* Haggar, Inouss & K. Walters 2005. ''Lexique tubu (dazaga)-français et glossaire français-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 téda, précédé d’un lexique français-téda''. Dakar: IFAN.
* Le Cœur, C., and M. Le Cœur 1956. ''Grammaire et textes teda-daza''. Memoires de l’IFAN 46. Dakar: Institut Français d’Afrique Noire.
* Lukas, Johannes 1951-52. Umrisse einer ostsaharanischen Sprachgruppe. ''Afrika und Übersee'', 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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