Tebu languages

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Tebu
Tubu
Geographic
distribution
Chad, Libya, Niger
Ethnicity Toubou people
Linguistic classification Nilo-Saharan?
Subdivisions
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog tebu1238
Toubou map.svg

Tebu is a small family of two Saharan languages, consisting of Daza and Teda. It is spoken by the two groups of Toubou people, the Daza and Teda.

Tebu is predominantly spoken in Chad and in southern Libya by around 580,000 people. Daza and Teda have an estimated 537,000 and 42,500 speakers, respectively. [1]

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