Gbin language

Gbin
Native to Ivory Coast
Region Bondoukou
Extinct ca. 1900
Niger–Congo

  • Mande

    • Eastern Mande
      • South(east)ern
        • Gbin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xgb
Glottolog gbin1239[1]

Gbin (Gbĩ) is an extinct Mande language of Ivory Coast, neighboring but not closely related to Beng. The only significant attestation is Delafosse (1904). Paperno describes Beng and Gbin as two primary branches of Southern Mande.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Gbin". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. ↑ Paperno, 2011, "One Hundred Years Old Language Documentation: Preliminary Notes on the Gbin Language"


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