Biseni language

Biseni
Native to Nigeria
Region Rivers State
Ethnicity Buseni
Native speakers
(4,800 cited 1977)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ije
Glottolog bise1238[2]

Biseni (Buseni) is one of three small Inland Ijaw languages of Nigeria. According to Ethnologue, it is not fully intelligible with other varieties of Inland Ijaw.

References

  1. Biseni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Biseni". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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