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Mbelime language

Mbelime language

Eastern Oti-Volta Gur language of Benin

Mbelime, or Niende, is an Eastern Oti-Volta Gur language of northwestern Benin. Mbelime is spoken by approximately 131,000 people.[2][3] There is a Mbelime dictionary.[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    Mbelime at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Roberts, David; Boyd, Ginger; Merz, Johannes; Vydrin, Valentin (2020). "Quantifying written ambiguities in tone languages: A comparative study of Elip, Mbelime, and Eastern Dan". Language Documentation & Conservation. 14: 108–138. ISSN 1934-5275.
  3. [3]
    Merz, Johannes. 2017. Frictions et inversion de modernité: Portrait de la Com- mune de Cobly dans l’Atacora du Bénin. SIL Electronic Working Papers 2017-001. https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/68776.
  4. [4]
    Sambiéni, N. Bienvenue, Merz, Johannes and Merz, Sharon (eds.). Mbelime – French Dictionary. Preliminary edition. SIL International. 2019


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