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{{Short description|Dialect of the Zaghawa language}}{{For|the Turkic language|Tubalar language}}{{Infobox language
| name             = Tuba
| nativename       = Bidayat
| states           = [[Chad]]
| speakers         = 3,000
| date             = no date
| ref              = {{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
| familycolor      = Nilo-Saharan
| fam2             = [[Saharan languages|Saharan]]
| fam3             = [[Saharan languages|Eastern]]
| fam4             = [[Zaghawa language|Zaghawa]]
| isoexception     = dialect
| glotto           = tuba1275
| glottorefname    = Tuba
| ethnicity        = Bidayat
}}

'''Tuba''', also '''Bidayat''' (Bideyat), is a [[dialect]] of the [[Zaghawa language]] found in [[Chad]] and western [[Sudan]].  In contrast to their Zaghawa kin, Bidayat speakers are more nomadic. This difference led early ethnographers to refer to them as different groups until linguistic similarities proved their close relationship.<ref>Issam Abdalla Ali, [http://www.sudanvisiondaily.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=3282 Zaghawa Language and History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061118092050/http://www.sudanvisiondaily.com//modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=3282|date=2006-11-18}}, [[Sudan Vision]], 20 September YEAR UNKNOWN</ref>

The former [[List of Presidents of Chad|President of Chad]], [[Idriss Déby]] belonged to this group by his mother side.

The Late minister Togou Djimet Guero,Adam Diar Mogodi,Abakar Tolli Lougoum,the General Adoum Togoy Abbo Bechibo and his uncle General Seby Aguid Bechibo all belong also to this Group

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