Gude

GDE

developing

Alternate Names: Cheke, Goude, Mapodi, Mapuda, Mocigin, Motchekin, Mudaye, Shede, Tchade

Dialects: Different dialects are spoken in Cameroon and Nigeria.

Genealogy:

Afro-Asiatic
Chadic
Biu-Mandara
A
A.8

Demographics: 68,000 in Nigeria (1987). Population total all countries: 96,000.

Language Use: Also use English [eng], Hausa [hau], Nigerian Fulfulde [fuv], Nzanyi [nja]. Used as L2 by Fali [fli].

Language Development: Literacy program in progress. Poetry. Grammar. NT: 1999.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Nigeria

Other Comments: Muslim, Christian, traditional religion.