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Gbin language

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

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

References

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  1. ^ Paperno, 2011, "One Hundred Years Old Language Documentation: Preliminary Notes on the Gbin Language"[1] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine