Gbin language explained

Gbin
State:Ivory Coast
Region:Bondoukou
Extinct:ca. 1900
Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Mande
Fam3:Southeastern Mande
Fam4:Southern Mande
Fam5:(unclassified)
Iso3:xgb
Linglist:xgb.html
Glotto:gbin1239
Glottorefname:Gbin

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]

Notes and References

  1. Paperno, 2011, "One Hundred Years Old Language Documentation: Preliminary Notes on the Gbin Language"http://paperno.bol.ucla.edu/gbin_walc.pdf