| Bete | ||
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| Spoken in: | All speakers located in Bete Town, Takum Local Government Authority, Taraba, Nigeria. | |
| Total speakers: | a small minority of 3000 | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo languages Jukunoid Bete |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | byf | |
| ISO 639-3: | byf | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Bete language of Nigeria is a nearly extinct language spoken by a small minority of the 3,000 inhabitants of Bete Town, Takum Local Government Authority, Taraba State; its speakers have mostly shifted to Jukun Takum. It is reported to have been close to Lufu and Bibi. It belongs in the Jukunoid subfamily of Niger-Congo, according to the Vienna Yukuben Project and the Ethnologue (15th ed.), though the latter formerly listed it as unclassified.
It is not to be confused with the Bété language of Côte d'Ivoire.
External links
Bibliography
- Crozier, David H. and Roger M. Blench, editors. 1992. An index of Nigerian languages. Abuja, Nigeria and Dallas: Nigerian Language Development Centre, Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Ilorin, and Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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