Beti language
Not to be confused with Eotile language.
Beti | |
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Yaunde–Fang | |
Native to | Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon |
Native speakers | (2.8 million cited 1982–2013)[1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
btb (code retired) |
Glottolog |
yaun1239 [2] |
Beti is a group of Bantu languages, spoken by the Beti-Pahuin peoples who inhabit the rain forest regions of Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe.[3] The varieties, which are largely mutually intelligible and variously considered dialects or closely related languages, are:
Beti had an ISO 639-3 code, but this was retired in 2010 because the varieties of Beti already had their own codes.[4]
There is a Beti-based pidgin called Ewondo Populaire.
References
- ↑ Sum of figures in Ethnologue 18
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yaunde–Fang (A.70)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-11. Retrieved 2010-09-20.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 20 September 2010.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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