Beng language

Beng
Ngain
Region Ivory Coast
Native speakers
 17,000 (1993)[1]
Niger–Congo

  • Mande

    • Eastern Mande
      • South(east)ern
        • Nwa–Beng?
          • Gban–Beng?
            • Beng
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nhb
Glottolog beng1291  (Bengic)[2]

Beng (Ben) is a Mande language of Ivory Coast. The Ngen dialect, perhaps a closely related language, is spelled various ways, including Gan, Ngain, Ngan, Ngin, Nguin.

Paperno describes Beng and Gbin as two primary branches of Southern Mande.

References

  1. ↑ Beng at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bengic". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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