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Gbin language

Gbin (Gbĩ) is an extinct Mande language of Ivory Coast, neighboring but not closely related to Beng. The only significant attestation of Gbin is Delafosse (1904). Paperno describes Beng and Gbin as two primary branches of Southern Mande.

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Gbin
Gbĩ
Native toIvory Coast
RegionBondoukou
Extinctca. 1900
Niger–Congo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3xgb
Glottologgbin1239

Gbin (Gbĩ) is an extinct Mande language of Ivory Coast, neighboring but not closely related to Beng. The only significant attestation of Gbin is Delafosse (1904).1 Paperno describes Beng and Gbin as two primary branches of Southern Mande.2

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References

  1. Delafosse, Maurice (1904). Vocabulaires Comparatifs de plus de 60 langues ou dialectes parlés a la Cote d'Ivoire. Paris: Ernest Leroux.
  2. Paperno, 2011, "One Hundred Years Old Language Documentation: Preliminary Notes on the Gbin Language"[1] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine