Beti language

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Not to be confused with Eotile language.
Beti
Yaunde–Fang
Native to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
Native speakers
 unknown (undated figure of 2 million)[1]
now perhaps 3–4 million[citation needed]
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3 btb (code retired)

Beti is a language, or group of Bantu languages, spoken by the Beti-Pahuin peoples, who inhabit the rain forest regions of Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe.[2] The varieties, which are largely mutually intelligible and variously considered dialects or closely related languages, are:

Ewondo (Yaunde), Fang, Bulu, Eton, Bebele, Bebil, Mengisa.

Beti has an ISO 639-3 code, but this was retired in 2010 because the varieties of Beti already had their own codes.[3]

There is a Beti-based pidgin called Ewondo Populaire.

References

  1. ↑ Beti reference at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000)
  2. ↑ http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=btb
  3. ↑ http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_detail.asp?id=2009-032
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Languages of Equatorial Guinea
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Indigenous
Pidgin/Creole
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