Bete language

Bete language

Infobox Language
name = Bete
states = All speakers located in Bete Town, Takum Local Government Authority, Taraba, Nigeria.
speakers = a small minority of 3000
familycolor = Niger-Congo languages
fam1 = Niger-Congo languages
fam2 = Jukunoid
iso2=byf|iso3=byf
The Bete language of Nigeria is a nearly extinct language spoken by a small minority of the 3,000 inhabitants of Bete Town, Takum Local Government Authority, Taraba State; its speakers have mostly shifted to Jukun Takum. It is reported to have been close to Lufu and Bibi. It belongs in the Jukunoid subfamily of Niger-Congo, according to the Vienna [http://www.univie.ac.at/linguistics/yukuben/ Yukuben Project] and the Ethnologue (15th ed.), though the latter formerly listed it as unclassified.

It is not to be confused with the Bété language of Côte d'Ivoire.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=byf Ethnologue page on Bete]
* [http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=9910&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html UNESCO, "Bete: Language profile"]

Bibliography

* 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.


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