Teshenawa language

{{Short description|Extinct Afro-Asiatic language of Nigeria}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Teshenawa

| states = Nigeria

| region = Jigawa State

| extinct = after 1927

| ref = {{Citation |last=Schuh |first=Russell G. |title=Shira, Teshena, Auyo: Hausa's (former) eastern neighbors |date=2001 |work=Historical Language Contact in Africa |volume=16/17 |pages=387–435 |series=Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika |place=Köln |publisher=Rüdiger Köppe}}

| familycolor = Afro-Asiatic

| fam2 = Chadic

| fam3 = West Chadic

| fam4 = Bade–Warji

| fam5 = Bade (B.1)

| iso3 = twc

| linglist = twc.html

| glotto = tesh1239

| glottorefname = Teshenawa

| altname = Teshenanchi

}}

Teshenawa (Teshenanchi) is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language formerly spoken in Teshena town of Kafin Hausa LGA, Jigawa State, Nigeria.{{Ethnologue13|twc|Teshenawa}}{{Cite book|title=An Atlas of Nigerian Languages|last=Blench|first=Roger|publisher=Kay Williamson Educational Foundation|year=2019|edition=4th|location=Cambridge}} It was closely related to the also-extinct Auyokawa and still-living Bade.