Glottolog tuba1275 | Native speakers 3,000 (date missing) | |
Language family Nilo-Saharan?SaharanEastern SaharanZaghawaTuba | ||
Tuba, also Bidayat (Bideyat), is a dialect of the Zaghawa language found in Chad and western Sudan. In contrast to their Zaghawa kin, Bidayat speakers are more nomadic. This difference led early ethnographers to refer to them as different groups until linguistic similarities proved their close relationship.
The current President of Chad, Idriss Déby Itno belongs to this group.
References
Bidayat dialect Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA