Bete language (Nigeria)
| Bete | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Bete Town, Takum Local Government Authority, Taraba, Nigeria. |
| Ethnicity | 3,000 Bete (1992)[1] |
Native speakers | 50 (1992)[2] |
|
Niger–Congo
| |
| 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.
External links
Bibliography
- ↑ Bete language (Nigeria) at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000). Note: Undated data may come from an earlier edition.
- ↑ Bete at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ 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.