Beeke language
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Beeke | |
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Ibeeke | |
Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Native speakers
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1,000 (1994)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bkf |
Glottolog | beek1238 [2] |
D.335 [3] |
Beeke is a Bantu language of uncertain affiliation. Guthrie assigned to the Nyali cluster. However, Ethnologue suggests that it may be a divergent form of Bali. It is 65% cognate with Bali, but 38% with the Nyali language Ndaka.
References[edit]
- ^ Beeke at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Beeke". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them.
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