Bade languages

Bade
B.1 West Chadic
Geographic
distribution
Borno State and Jigawa State, Nigeria
Linguistic classificationAfro-Asiatic
Language codes
Glottologwest2710
West Chadic per Newman (1977)
Main Chadic-speaking peoples in Nigeria

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.


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