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]
References
^ Mbelime at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ Sambiéni, N. Bienvenue, Merz, Johannes and Merz, Sharon (eds.). Mbelime – French Dictionary. Preliminary edition. SIL International. 2019
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