CU Linguistics professor Zygmunt Frajyzngier and an international team of researchers have produced a 聽of the Chadic language Hdi. The book is the first trilingual dictionary of this endangered language. The dictionary is preceded by a short grammatical sketch, and contains French-Hdi-English and English-Hdi French indexes. Most verbs are illustrated by examples.聽Hdi (gw谩蓷-谩 虫诲铆 鈥�anguage of Hdi鈥� or simply聽虫诲铆聽鈥榠n Hdi鈥�) is a Central Chadic language spoken in the聽Far North Province聽of Cameroon. Hdi is the predominant language used in聽the city of聽Tourou, located on the border between Cameroon and Nigeria. The estimated聽number of current speakers of Hdi ranges between 10,000 and 29,000 ().聽The dictionary is based on fieldwork begun by Zygmunt Frajzyngier in聽1991 and incorporates data from Paul Eguchi鈥檚聽Mat茅riaux pour servir 脿 l'茅tude de la langue hid茅: Vocabulaire听(1971).
Frajzyngier, Zygmunt, Roger Praf茅, Paul Eguchi, Shaae Schwabauer, with Erin Shay and Henry Tourneux. 2015. 聽A Dictionary of Hdi:聽A Central Chadic Language of Cameroon. Cologne: Koeppe