Beti language
Not to be confused with Eotile language.
| Beti | |
|---|---|
| Yaunde–Fang | |
| Native to | Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon |
Native speakers | (2.8 million cited 1982–2013)[1] |
| Dialects | |
| 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 has 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; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yaunde–Fang (A.70)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-11. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-16. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
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