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

  1. Bete language (Nigeria) at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
  2. Bete at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bete (Jukunoid)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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