Teda language
{{Short description|Nilo-Saharan language of the east-central Sahara}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Teda
|nativename=Tedaga
|region= BET, Kanem, Tibesti, Murzuq, Agadez
|ethnicity=Teda
|speakers={{sigfig|130,490|2}}
|date=2020–2024
|ref=e27
|script=Latin
|familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
|fam2=Saharan
|fam3=Western
|fam4=Tebu
|iso3=tuq
|glotto=teda1241
|glottorefname=Tedaga
|map=Toubou map.svg
|lingua=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.
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.
Phonology
=Consonants=
| class=wikitable style=text-align:center
! colspan=2| !! Labial !! Alveolar !! Post- | |
| rowspan=2|Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless
| {{IPAlink|p}} || {{IPAlink|t}} || {{IPAlink|t͡ʃ}} || || {{IPAlink|k}} || |
|---|---|
| voiced
| {{IPAlink|b}} || {{IPAlink|d}} || {{IPAlink|d͡ʒ}} || || {{IPAlink|g}} || | |
| colspan=2|Nasal
| {{IPAlink|m}} || {{IPAlink|n}} || || {{IPAlink|ɲ}} || {{IPAlink|ŋ}} || | |
| rowspan=2|Fricative | voiceless
| {{IPAlink|f}} || {{IPAlink|s}} || {{IPAlink|ʃ}} || {{IPAlink|ç}} || || {{IPAlink|h}} |
| voiced
| {{IPAlink|v}} || {{IPAlink|z}} || || || {{IPAlink|ɣ}} || | |
| colspan=2|Approximant
| || {{IPAlink|l}} || || {{IPAlink|j}} || {{IPAlink|w}} || |
=Vowels=
References
{{Reflist}}
- {{cite journal |last=Barth |first=Heinrich |year=1854 |title=Schreiben an Prof. Lepsius über die Beziehung der Kanori- und Teda-Sprachen |journal=Zeitschrift für Erdkunde |volume=2 |pages=372-374, 384-387}}
- {{cite thesis |last=Chonai |first=Hassan |year=1998 |title=Gruppa teda-kanuri (centraľnosaxarskaja sem'ja jazykov) i ee genetičeskie vzaimootnošenija (ėtimologičeskij i fonologičeskij aspekt) |location=Moskva |degree=PhD |publisher=Rossijskij gosudarstvennyj gumanitarnyj universitet}}
- {{cite book |last1=Haggar |first1=Inouss |first2=K. |last2=Walters |year=2005 |title=Lexique tubu (dazaga)-français et glossaire français-tubu |location=Niamey |publisher=SIL Niger}}
- {{cite book |last=Jourdan |first=P. |year=1935 |title=Notes grammaticales et vocabulaire de la langue Daza |location=London |publisher=Kegan, Paul, Trench & Trubner}}
- {{cite book |last=Le Cœur |first=C. |year=1950 |title=Dictionnaire ethnographique téda, précédé d'un lexique français-téda |location=Dakar |publisher=IFAN}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Le Cœur |first1=C. |first2=M. |last2=Le Cœur |year=1956 |title=Grammaire et textes teda-daza |journal=Mémoires de l'IFAN |volume=46 |location=Dakar |publisher=Institut Français d’Afrique Noire}}
- {{cite journal |last=Lukas |first=Johannes |year=1951–1952 |title=Umrisse einer ostsaharanischen Sprachgruppe |journal=Afrika und Übersee |volume=36 |pages=3–7}}
- {{cite book |last=Lukas |first=Johannes |year=1953 |title=Die Sprache der Tubu in der zentralen Sahara |location=Berlin |publisher=Akademie Verlag}}
- {{cite web |title=Audio records of Daza-Teda languages |year=1946 |url=http://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/collections/CNRSMH_I_1950_002/}}
{{Incubator|tuq}}{{Languages of Libya}}
{{Languages of Chad}}
{{Languages of Niger}}
{{Saharan languages}}
{{Authority control}}
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