Biseni

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Biseni

Spoken in

Nigeria ( Rivers State )
speaker 4,800 (1977)
Linguistic
classification

Niger-Congo

Language codes
ISO 639-3

ije

The Biseni (Buseni) language is one of the three small inland Ijo languages ​​of the Nigerian languages .

It is spoken by the Buseni ethnic group and does not allow understanding of other varieties of the Inland Ijo.

The language is threatened with extinction as more and more speakers move to English , which is the only official language in Nigeria and the only language taught in schools.

literature

  • Charles EW Jenewari. Ijoid. In Bendor-Samuel, John (ed.), The Niger-Congo Languages: A Classification and Description of Africa's Largest Language Families , 1989, 105–118. Lanham: University Press of America.
  • Lee, JD, and Ruth Margaret Kay. A lexical-statistical classification of the Ijo dialects: research into African languages ​​and linguistics 1. 1990, 1–10.
  • Roger M. Blench. Comparative Ijoide word list. 2007, 1121 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ethnologue, Languages ​​of the World / [1]
  2. ↑ http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bise1238
  3. ↑ http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bise1238
  4. ↑ http://www.academia.edu/3796878/Comparative_Ijo_wordlists