Mbelime language

Mbelime
Mbelime
Native to	Benin
Native speakers	40,000 (2006)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Gur Northern Oti–Volta Eastern (Somba) Mbelime; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mql
Glottolog	mbel1240

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

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.

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