Bete language (Nigeria)
| Bete | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Bete Town, Takum Local Government Authority, Taraba State, Nigeria. |
| Ethnicity | 3,000 Bete (1992)[1] |
Native speakers | 50 (1992)[2] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
byf |
| Glottolog |
bete1261[3] |
The Bete language of Nigeria is a nearly extinct language spoken by a small minority of the 3,000 inhabitants of Bete Town, Takum, Taraba State; its speakers have mostly shifted to Jukun Takum. It is close to Lufu.
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Bibliography
- ↑ Bete language (Nigeria) at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
- ↑ Bete at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bete (Jukunoid)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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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