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 family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Plateau Yukubenic Bete–Lufu Bete
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.

See also

• Bete people

External links

• UNESCO, "Bete: Language profile"

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.

• 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.