Bete language (Nigeria)

Spoken in

Niger - Congo

• Atlantic - Congo Benue - Congo Jukunoide languages

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The beet is one of the languages ​​of Nigeria and is a nearly extinct jukunoide language which is spoken by only a small minority of the 3,000 residents in the city of Bete in TAKUM Local Government Authority of the State of Taraba.

Their spokesmen were mostly over to the English, the sole official language of the country to take over since the British colonial era. Some speakers of prayer can also Jukun TAKUM. It is reported that praying with the languages ​​Lufu and Bibi is more closely related. Both languages ​​belong to the subfamily of jukunoiden languages ​​within the Niger -Congo language family.

The language is also a platoide language and should not be confused with the language Bété in the Ivory Coast.