Beeke language
| Beeke | |
|---|---|
| Ibeeke | |
| Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Native speakers | 1,000 (1994)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bkf |
| Glottolog |
beek1238[2] |
D.335[3] | |
Beeke is a Bantu language of uncertain affiliation. Guthrie assigned to the Nyali cluster. However, Ethnologue suggests that it may be a divergent form of Bali. It is 65% cognate with Bali, but 38% with the Nyali language Ndaka.
References
- ↑ Beeke at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Beeke". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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