Yedina language

{{Short description|Chadic language}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Yedina

| nativename = Buduma

| states = Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria

| speakers = {{sigfig|54800|2}}

| date = 1993 census

| ref = e18

| familycolor = Afro-Asiatic

| fam2 = Chadic

| fam3 = Biu–Mandara

| fam4 =

| iso3 = bdm

| glotto = budu1265

| glottorefname = Buduma

| dia1 = Buduma

| dia2 = Kuri

| ethnicity = Buduma people

}}

Yedina, also known as Buduma (Boudouma), is a Chadic language of the Biu–Mandara branch spoken around Lake Chad in western Chad and neighbouring Cameroon and Nigeria.

200 speakers live in Cameroon, and the rest live in Chad.{{cite book|editor-last=Binam Bikoi|editor-first=Charles|date=2012|title=Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM)|trans-title=Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon|volume=1: Inventaire des langues|language=fr|location=Yaoundé|publisher=CERDOTOLA|series=Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC)|isbn=9789956796069}}