Tedaga

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Tedaga is the language spoken by the Teda people, a Saharan ethnic group primarily inhabiting parts of Chad, Niger, and southern Libya.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tedaga canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nilo-Saharan language
Saharan language
language
closelyRelatedTo Dazaga
countryDistribution eastern Niger
northern Chad
southern Libya
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroupAssociated Teda
Toubou
hasAlternativeName Teda
Teda language
linked to: Tedaga language

Tubu Teda
linked to: Tubu
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasDialectContinuumWith Dazaga Toubou
linked to: Toubou
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
emphatic consonants
hasWritingSystem Arabic script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
isMinorityLanguageIn Chad
Libya
Niger
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan
Saharan
lexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
Hausa
Kanuri
linked to: Kanuri people
memberOf Tebu branch of Saharan languages
primaryDomainOfUse community life
home
region Central Sahara
Sahel fringe
linked to: Sahel
spokenBy Teda people
spokenIn Chad
Libya
Niger
spokenInRegion Sahara Desert
Tibesti Mountains
subfamilyOf Tebu languages
usedAlongside Arabic
French
Hausa
usedBy nomadic communities
pastoralist communities
usedFor oral communication

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Teda people ethnonym Tedaga