ISO 639-3 btb (code retired) | Glottolog yaun1239 | |
Native to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon Native speakers (2.8 million cited 1982–2013) Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Bantu (Zone A)
Beti Dialects Bebele
Bebil
Bulu
Eton
Ewondo
Fang
Mengisa | ||
Beti is a 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. 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.
There is a Beti-based pidgin called Ewondo Populaire.
References
Beti language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA