Beti language

Not to be confused with Eotile language.
Beti
Yaunde–Fang
Native to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
Native speakers
 unknown (2.8 million cited 1982–2013)[1]
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3 btb (code retired)
Glottolog yaun1239[2]

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.[3] 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.[4]

There is a Beti-based pidgin called Ewondo Populaire.

References

  1. ↑ Sum of figures in Ethnologue 18
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yaunde–Fang (A.70)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=btb
  4. ↑ http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_detail.asp?id=2009-032