The Bette are a Bantu people inhabiting the Obudu area of Cross River State,

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. The Bette people are one of five tribes inhabiting Obudu area of Cross River State, along with the Utugwang, Alege, Ukpe and Ubang.Ishi, Ukemiteh. "Obudu New Yam Festival: The People, Their Tradition". ''Cross River Watch'' Web. 31 August 2017. 4 December 2017 The name "Bette" refers to both the language and the people who constitute a dominant ethnic group in Obudu Local Government Area of Cross River State,

. Bette migrated from the Bantu in south

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and settled at the foot of the Cameroun Mountain, a part of which now constitutes the famous

Obudu Cattle Ranch Obudu Mountain Resort (formerly known as the Obudu Cattle Ranch) is a ranch and resort on the Obudu Plateau in Cross River State, Nigeria. History It was developed in 1951 by M. McCaughley a Scot who first explored the mountain ranges in 1949. ...

. Bette is a folk language that is still grossly unwritten because of the dearth of a standard

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. However, Bette is a complex language deeply tied to the culture and existence of its people and cannot be easily understood or analyzed academically by merely comparing to European languages or other unrelated languages.

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