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People and languages

Bété people The Bété are an Ivory Coast group with strong cultural and artistic links to the Dan, the We ( Gwere) and the Guro, among others. The Bete together with many other ethnolinguistic groups makeup the Kru ethnic group. There are 93 distinct gro ...

of Côte d'Ivoire **

Bété languages The Bété languages are a language cluster of Kru languages spoken in central-western Ivory Coast. There are many dialects but they can be grouped as follows: *Western ** Bété of Gagnoa ** Kouya *Eastern ** Bété of Guiberoua ** Bété of ...

Bété syllabary The Bété syllabary was created for the Bété language of Ivory Coast (in West Africa) in the 1950s by artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré. It consists of about 440 pictographic characters, which represent scenes from life and stand for syllables ...

Bete people (Nigeria) Bete people hail from Bete Town, Takum, Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situat ...

Bete language (Nigeria) The Bete language of Nigeria is a nearly extinct language spoken by a small minority of the 3,000 inhabitants of Bete Town, Takum, Taraba State; its speakers have mostly shifted to Jukun Takum. It is close to Lufu. See also * Bete people Exte ...

, a language of Bete Town, Nigeria *

Bete (priest) The Bete were the traditional priestly class in Fiji. The ''kalou-vu'' ( Ancestor-God In monotheistic thought, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith. Swinburne, R.G. "God" in Honderich, Ted. (ed) ...

, the traditional priestly class in Fiji *

Bete Mendes Bete Mendes (born Elizabeth Mendes de Oliveira; 11 May 1949) is a Brazilian actress and politician. Biography Early life Bete Mendes was born Elizabeth Mendes de Oliveira in Santos, São Paulo. She is the daughter of Osmar Pires de Oliveira, ...

(born 1949), Brazilian actress and politician

Arts and entertainment

* ''Bete'' (film), a 1986 Kannada film by V. Somasekhar * '' La Bête'', a 1991 play by David Hirson * ''La Bête'' (film), a 1975 French erotic fantasy horror film *

Bête Bête, la Bête (french: Jeu de la Bête), Beste or la Beste (''Jeu de la Beste''), originally known as Homme or l'Homme (''Jeu de l'Homme''), was an old, French, trick-taking card game, usually for three to five players. It was a derivative of Tr ...

, a historical French card game *

Bête (cards) Bête (from the French ''bête'' [] = "beast", "dumb animal" or "brute"), Labet or the Germanised Bete and (Low German) Beet, is a term used in certain card games for a penalty payment e.g. for failing to take the minimum number of tricks, or for ...

, a penalty in certain card games

Other uses

Beryllium telluride Beryllium telluride (BeTe) is a chemical compound of beryllium and tellurium. It is a crystalline solid with the lattice constant of 0.5615 nm. It is a semiconductor with a large energy gap of around 3 eV. Toxicity is unknown. Toxic hydrogen tell ...

(BeTe)