Bade
[aka Bede, Bedde, Gidgid]Classification: Afro-Asiatic
·at risk
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At risk
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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~250,000
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"The Ethnologue gives a population figure of 250,000, which seems not unreasonable, since it probably includes all Bade dialects as well as Duwai."
- Scripts (Writing system)
- Roman script
- More on Orthography
Roman script based on Hausa orthography.
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
"Bade is spoken in the northern part of Yobe State, Nigeria, in an area fanning out east and south of Gashua, the current location of the court of the Emir of Bade (Bedde)... [Western Bade is] spoken over the western half to two-thirds of the Bade area, some of the larger Western Bade speaking towns being Amshi, Dagona, Tagali, and, Madamuwa; Southern Bade, spoken to the southeast of the Western area and south of Gashua, with some of the main Southern Bade-speaking towns being Katamma, Katangana, and Gorgoram; and Gashua Bade, spoken in the city of Gashua, by far the largest town in the Bade-speaking area, and villages fanning out around Gashua."