Bena language
Not to be confused with Bena language (Adamawa).
Bena | |
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Ekibena | |
Native to | Tanzania |
Ethnicity | Bena |
Native speakers | 670,000 (2001)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
bez |
Glottolog |
bena1262 [2] |
G.63 [3] | |
Linguasphere |
99-AUS-ub incl. varieties 99-AUS-uba...-ubg |
Bena is a Bantu language spoken by the Bena people of the Iringa region of Tanzania.
References
- ↑ Bena at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bena (Tanzania)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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