Guduf-Gava (also known as Gudupe, Afkabiye) is an

Afro-Asiatic The Afroasiatic languages (also known as Afro-Asiatic, Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic) are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of th ...

language spoken in

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. In a 2006 paper,

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classified

Cineni Cineni is a village in Gwoza, Borno State, Nigeria. It is the home of the Cineni language Cineni is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Borno State, Nigeria in the single village of Cineni. In a 2006 paper, Roger Blench Roger Marsh Blench ...

as a dialect.Blench, 2006
The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List
(ms) Blench (2019) lists Cikide as a dialect of Guduf.

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