Tebu languages

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The Tebu languages are a group of closely related Saharan languages spoken primarily by the Tebu people across parts of Chad, Niger, and Libya.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tebu languages canonical 5

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Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Saharan languages
language family
arealGroup Saharan languages
closelyRelatedTo Kanembu language
Kanuri
surface form: Kanuri language
ethnicGroupAssociated Daza people
Teda people
geographicDistribution Borkou
surface form: Borkou region

Ennedi
surface form: Ennedi region

Tibesti Region
surface form: Tibesti region

central Sahara
glottologCode tebu1238
hasAlternativeName Tebu
surface form: Tebuic

Daza
surface form: Teda-Daza

Teda–Daza languages
hasPart Dazaga language
Tedaga language
ISO639-3CollectiveCode tuq
languageBranchOf Saharan branch of Nilo-Saharan
linguisticFeature SOV basic word order (in many varieties)
rich consonant inventory
use of postpositions
primaryCountry Chad
region Sahara Desert
Sahel
secondaryCountry Libya
Niger
spokenBy Tebu people
spokenIn Chad
Libya
Niger
Nigeria
Sudan
status minority languages in all countries where spoken
subclassOf Nilo-Saharan languages
usedFor local trade
oral tradition
pastoralist nomadic life communication
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (5)

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

Tibesti Mountains languageSpoken Tebu languages
Kufra region languageSpoken Tebu languages
Toubou people language Tebu languages
Teda language subfamily Tebu languages
Gorane people languageFamily Tebu languages