Afade

English

Alternative forms

• Affade, Afadeh, Afaɗə

Proper noun

Afade

1. A Chadic language of Nigeria.
   • 1968, in Africana marburgensia (published by the Philipps-Universität Marburg), volumes 1-5:

     […] if the Musgum and Afade words are cognate, […]

   • 2003, William Frawley, editor, International encyclopedia of linguistics‎^[1], volume 1, 2, page 235:

     All Kotoko language speakers in Nigeria may speak Afade.

   • 2007, Tones and Tunes: Typological studies in word and sentence prosody (Tomas Riad, Carlos Gussenhoven), page 71:

     Other 'dialects' are spoken in Nigeria and Chad, and include Afade, Lagwan, Mser, Mpade, Maslam, Malgbe and Mazera.

Synonyms

• Kotoko, Mogari

Translations

the language

• French: afade (fr)
• German: Afade n

Further reading

• ISO 639-3 code aal (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Afade, aal ⁠