Bade | |
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B.1 West Chadic | |
Geographic distribution | Borno State and Jigawa State, Nigeria |
Linguistic classification | Afro-Asiatic |
Language codes | |
Glottolog | west2710 |
West Chadic per Newman (1977) |
The Bade languages (also known as B.1 West Chadic or the Bade–Ngizim languages) are a branch of West Chadic languages that are spoken in Borno State and Jigawa State of northern Nigeria. Bade is the most widely spoken language with 250,000 speakers, followed by Ngizim with 80,000 speakers.