Bété (language)

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Beté, pray

Spoken in

Ivory Coast
speaker about 900,000
Linguistic
classification
Official status
Recognized minority /
regional language in 		Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast
Language codes
ISO 639-3

btg , bev , bet , god , kyf

The Bété language is spoken in the central-west Ivory Coast . It is spoken by the approximately 900,000 members of the Bété people and is a Kru language . The language has its own script, the Bété script .

Dialects

There are many dialects, which are subdivided as follows and as languages ​​belong to a dialect continuum:

Western dialects
Eastern dialects
  • Guiberouabété
  • Daloabété
  • Godié

See also

literature

  • Zogbo, Raymond Gnoléba Parlons bété : Une langue de Côte d'Ivoire (L'Harmattan) 2004
  • Zogbo, Raymond Gnoléba, Dictionnaire bété-français, Abidjan: Éditions du CERAP, 2005.
  • Lowe, Ivan, Edwin Arthur, and Philip Saunders. 2003. "Eventivity in Kouya." In Mary Ruth Wise, Thomas N. Headland and Ruth M. Brend (eds.), Language and life: essays in memory of Kenneth L. Pike, 429-448. SIL International and The University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, 139. Dallas: SIL International and University of Texas at Arlington.
  • Saunders, Philip and Eddie Arthur. 1996. Lexique sokuya, sokuya - français, français - sokuya. Abidjan / Vavoua: Projet Linguistique Sokuya. iv, 80 p.
  • Arthur Eddie & Sue, Saunders Philip & Heather. 1995 Sɔkɔwɛlɩɩ ʼWʋzɛlɩsɛbhɛ (Syllabaire sokuya). Abidjan: Société Internationale de Linguistique.

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