Bebe language

{{Short description|Southern Bantu language of Cameroon}}

{{Infobox language

|name = Bebe

|altname = Naami

|nativename = Yi Be Wu

|region =Cameroon

|speakers ={{sigfig|3,550|2}}

|date=2008

|ref=e18

|familycolor =Niger-Congo

|fam2 =Atlantic–Congo

|fam3 =Benue–Congo

|fam4 =Southern Bantoid

|fam5 =Eastern Beboid

|iso3 = bzv

|glotto=bebe1250

|glottorefname=Bebe

}}

Bebe, or Naami, is an Eastern Beboid language of Cameroon. According to Ethnologue, it's 85% lexically similar to Kemezung.

References

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  • Blench, Roger, 2011. [http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/Bantoid/General/Blench%20Bantu%20IV%20Berlin%20Bantoid%202011.pdf 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu']. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.
  • Brye, Edward and Elizabeth Brye. 2004. "Intelligibility testing survey of Bebe and Kemezung and synthesis of sociolinguistic research of the Eastern Beboid cluster." SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2004-011: 18 p. http://www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2004-011

{{Beboid languages}}

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Category:Beboid languages

Category:Languages of Cameroon

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