Bete-Bendi language

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Bete-Bendi
Bendi
Native to Nigeria
Native speakers
100,000 (2006) [1]
Dialects
  • Bendi
  • Bete
Language codes
ISO 639-3 btt
Glottolog bete1262

Bete-Bendi, or Bendi, is one of the Bendi languages of Nigeria. There are 100,000 speakers as of 2006.

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References

  1. Bete-Bendi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)