Beti is a group of
Bantu language
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu language, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀), or Ntu languages are a language family of about 600 languages of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern, East Africa, Eastern and Southeast Africa, South ...
s, spoken by the
Beti peoples who inhabit the
rain forest
Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree Canopy (biology), canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforests can be generally classified as tropi ...
regions of
Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...
. The varieties, which are largely
mutually intelligible
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between different but related language varieties in which speakers of the different varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. Mutual intellig ...
and variously considered dialects or closely related languages, are:
:
Ewondo
:
Eton
:
Mengisa
Beti had an ISO 639-3 code, but it was retired in 2010 because the varieties of Beti already had their own codes.
There is a Beti-based pidgin called
Ewondo Populaire.
References
Languages of Cameroon
Languages of Equatorial Guinea
Languages of Gabon
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