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Guduf-Gava language

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Guduf-Gava
Native toNigeria
RegionBorno State
Native speakers
56,000 (2000)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3gdf
Glottologgudu1252

Guduf-Gava (also known as Gudupe, Afkabiye) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Borno State, Nigeria. In a 2006 paper, Roger Blench classified Cineni as a dialect.[2]

Blench (2019) lists Cikide as a dialect of Guduf.[3]

Notes

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  1. ^ Guduf-Gava at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
  3. ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.