Bena language (Adamawa)

Bena (Bəna, AKA Binna, Buna, Ebina, Ebuna, Gbinna, "Lala", Purra, Yangeru, Yongor, Yungur) is an Adamawa language of Nigeria.

This article is about the Nigerian language. For the Bena language of Tanzania, see Bena language.
Bena
Yungur
Ebәna
Native toNigeria
RegionAdamawa State
Native speakers
(95,000 cited 1992)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3yun
Glottologbena1260[2]
Bəna[3]
PeopleBəna
LanguageEbәna

References
  1. Bena at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bena (Nigeria)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.


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