Bebe language

Bebe
Naami
Yi Be Wu
Region	Cameroon
Native speakers	3,600 (2008)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Eastern Beboid Bebe
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`bzv`
Glottolog	`bebe1250`^[2]

Bebe, or Naami, is an Eastern Beboid language of Cameroon. According to Ethnologue, it's 85% lexically similar to Kemezung.

References

↑ Bebe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bebe". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Blench, Roger, 2011. 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Brye, Edward and Elizabeth Brye. 2004. "Intelligibility testing survey of Bebe and Kemezung and synthesis of sociolinguistic research of the Eastern Beboid cluster." SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2004-011: 18 p. http://www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2004-011

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