Gbeya language

{{Short description|Gbaya language spoken in Central Africa}}

{{distinguish|Suma-Jumano language}}

{{Infobox language

|name= Gbeya

|altname=

|states=Central African Republic

|speakers=ca. 250,000

|date=1996–2005

|ref=e25

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Savannas

|fam4=Gbaya

|fam5=Western

|fam6=Bokoto–Bozom

|lc1=gbp|ld1=Gbaya-Bossangoa

|lc2=sqm|ld2=Suma

|glotto=gbey1244

|glottorefname=Gbeya–Suma

|glotto2=dekk1240

|glottorefname2=Dek

}}

Gbeya (Gbɛ́yá, Gbaya-Bossangoa) is a Gbaya language of the Central African Republic. Ethnologue reports it may be mutually intelligible with Bozom.{{Cite book| last = Samarin| first = William J.| title = The Gbeya language: Grammar, texts, and vocabularies| date = 1966| hdl=1807/67174|oclc=897343|asin=B000S2UYWE|url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/67174/1/The_Gbeya_Language.pdf}} Book reviewed in both {{cite journal|jstor=411642|title=Review of The Gbeya Language: Grammar, Texts, and Vocabularies|first=Karen|last=Courtenay|date=1 January 1968|journal=Language|volume=44|issue=2|pages=420–423|doi=10.2307/411642|postscript=,|hdl=1807/67174|hdl-access=free}} and {{Cite journal|doi=10.1525/aa.1969.71.2.02a00600|title=The Gbeya Language: Grammar, Texts, and Vocabularies . William J. Samarin|journal=American Anthropologist|volume=71|issue=2|pages=365–366|year=1969|last1=Crabb|first1=David W.|doi-access=free}}

Suma (Súmā) is a language variety closely related to Gbeya.[https://www.rblanguesdafrique.info/suma2.html Suma materials from Raymond Boyd]