Beti is a group of
Bantu languages, spoken by the
Beti-Pahuin peoples who inhabit the
rain forest 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 north ...
, 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
Ewondo Populaire, also known as Pidgin A70, is a Beti-based pidgin
A pidgin , or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common: t ...
.
References
Languages of Cameroon
Languages of Equatorial Guinea
Languages of Gabon
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