Notes
- 1 2 Gadang at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
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| Gadang | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Chad |
| Region | southwest |
Native speakers | (2,500 cited 1997) [1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gdk |
| Glottolog | gada1262 |
| ELP | Gadang |
Gadang is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in southwestern Chad. [1]
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