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Gbin language

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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]

References

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  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" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine