Bade (also spelled Bede, Bedde, or Bode) is a West Chadic language spoken by the Bade people in Yobe State and Jigawa State, Nigeria. Their traditional ruler is the Emir of Bade.Dialects are Gashua Bade (Mazgarwa), Southern Bade (Bade-Kado), Western Bade (Maagwaram), and extinct Shirawa. Speakers are shifting to Hausa. Blench first considered Shirawa to be a distinct language, but in later works showed that a manuscript wordlist proves it was merely a dialect of Bade.