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Name:
Benc'
Alternate Names:
Gimira; Bench; Ghimarra; Gimarra; Dizu; Bencho; Bensho; She; Kaba
Spoken in:
Ethiopia
Number of speakers:
174,000 (1994 census). 149,293 monolinguals. 10,002 She, 1,070 Mer. Ethnic population: 173,123 (1994 census)
(Ethnologue)
Code:
bcq
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup:
Gimira (gimi)
Child Dialect:
Mer; Mieru (bcq-mer)
Map of Benc'
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