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BADE-ENGLISH-

HAUSA

DICTIONARY

(Western Dialect)

B ALA W AKILI D AGONA

Edited by

Russell G. Schuh

Yobe Languages Research Project

BADE-ENGLISH-HAUSA

DICTIONARY

(Western Dialect)

Bala Wakili Dagona

Edited by

R USSELL G. S CHUH

Yobe Languages Research Project

2004

Yobe Languages Research Project

Box 435

Potiskum, Yobe State Nigeria

Preparation and publication of this work was supported by a grant from the US

National Science Foundation (award #BCS-0111289, Russell G. Schuh, Principal

Investigator).

Published by

Ajami Press, Box 343, Potiskum, Yobe State

INTRODUCTION

This is the first published dictionary of the Bade language, spoken

in northern Yobe State, Nigeria. The original basis for the dictionary

was a sizable collection of words assembled in 1973-75 when the

editor lived in Gashua and was working as a Senior Research Fellow

with the Centre for the Study of Nigerian Languages (then a research

branch of Ahmadu Bello University, now part of Bayero University

Kano). The original vocabulary list came mainly from stories,

histories, proverbs, and so forth provided by many speakers, all of

which were transcribed and checked with the indispensable help of the

late Musa Gana Amshi. Musa also provided a large number of the

words in that list. The original list has been considerably expanded

and many corrections have been made during the current project.

Bade is dialectally very diverse. There are at least three major

dialect divisions, which the editor has referred to as the “Western”,

“Southern”, and “Gashua” dialect varieties. These varieties are

different enough from each other that they might be called different

languages. Within each of the major varieties, there are many sub-

dialectal distinctions-indeed, virtually every town and village has its

own distinctive characteristics. A dictionary that tried to combine the

three main dialect types would be unwieldy and confusing. This

dictionary thus contains words only from the Western variety, which

is numerically the largest. It does, however, include words from

towns across the Western dialect area, including Dagona, Amshi, Yin,

Bizi, Tagali, Madamuwa, and others. Speakers from certain towns

may thus find words that are unfamiliar to them or that they do not

actively use.

The compilers view this as the FIRST EDITION of the dictionary.

The relatively small group of people who have assembled the

information in this dictionary could not hope to do justice to the

richness of Bade. Users of the dictionary will find that many

important words are missing, they will find errors in the Bade that

remain despite the best efforts of the compilers to correct them, and

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