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Name: Besme
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Huner; Hounar; 'Unar; Beseme; Besemme; Bodor
Spoken in: Chad
Number of speakers: 1,230 (1993 census) (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 1228 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 1228 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: bes
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup: Kim; Group 14; Kim (G14) (kimx)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Severely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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