Eotile language

Not to be confused with Beti language.
Eotile
Beti
Native to Ivory Coast
Ethnicity 3,180 (1988 census)[1]
Native speakers
200 (1999)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 eot
Glottolog beti1248[2]

Eotile, or Beti, is a nearly extinct Tano language of Ivory Coast. Speakers are shifting to Anyin, with remaining Eotile speakers heavily influenced by that language. The last speaker of "pure" Eotile is reported to have died in 1993.

References

  1. 1 2 Eotile at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Beti (Cote d'Ivoire)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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