Bebe, or Naami, is an Eastern Beboid language of Cameroon. According to Ethnologue, it's 85% lexically similar to Kemezung.
Bebe | |
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Naami | |
Yi Be Wu | |
Region | Cameroon |
Native speakers | 3,600 (2008)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bzv |
Glottolog | bebe1250 |
References
edit- ^ Bebe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Blench, Roger, 2011. '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