Beti is a group of
Bantu languages, spoken by the
Beti-Pahuin
The Beti-Pahuin are a Bantu ethnic group located in rain forest regions of Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Though they separate themselves into several individual clans, they all share a c ...
peoples who inhabit the
rain forest
Rainforests are characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforest can be classified as tropical rainforest or temperate rainforest ...
regions of
Cameroon
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,
Republic of the Congo,
Equatorial Guinea,
Gabon
Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the nort ...
, and
São Tomé and Príncipe. The varieties, which are largely
mutually intelligible and variously considered dialects or closely related languages, are:
:
Ewondo (Yaunde)
:
Fang
:
Bulu
:
Eton
:
Bebele
:
Bebil
:
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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