[2] With 356,000 speakers,[3] the language and the culture of the Bade people have suffered over the last several years.
[3] Across West Africa, the impact on local communities through the loss of the indigenous tongues will be significant.
[6] The Kanuri language is primarily spoken in West Africa, including: Nigeria and Chad.
Bade and Ngizim have borrowed a number of words from the Kanuri language.
In general, Nigerian languages comprise the wealth of linguistic diversity that exists in the country.
[10] In the Bade/Ngizim languages, the glottal stop plays no role, but the vowel hiatus relies on elision and coalescence.
There are many loanwords from Kanuri to West Chadic languages, including Bade.