Bilen language

E392888

The Bilen language is a Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Bilen people in Eritrea.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Bilen language canonical 7

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cushitic language
language
closelyRelatedTo other Agaw languages
continent Africa
country Eritrea
countryOfficialStatus not an official language of Eritrea
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Bilen people
family Cushitic
glottologName Blin
surface form: Bilin
hasAlternativeName Belen
Bilin
Blin
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasEthnologueEntry Bilen
hasGlottocode bile1251
hasISO639-3Code byn
hasLinguasphereCode 12-AAC-a
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNeighborLanguage Saho language
Tigre language
Tigrinya
surface form: Tigrinya language
hasNumberOfSpeakers tens of thousands
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
vowel length contrast
influencedBy Arabic
surface form: Arabic language

Tigre language
Tigrinya
surface form: Tigrinya language
isSpokenByMinority true
languageBranch Central Cushitic languages
surface form: Central Cushitic
languageStatus minority language
nativeName Bilen
Blin
primaryRegion Anseba Region
Keren area
regionType highland Eritrea
spokenIn East Africa
Eritrea
subfamily Agaw languages
usedBy Bilen community in Eritrea
usedInDomain local media
oral tradition
religious contexts
writingSystem Geʽez script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bilen people language Bilen language
Bilen people nativeNameLanguage Bilen language
Anseba hasLanguage Bilen language
Eritrean languageDiversityContext Bilen language
Bilein languageSpoken Bilen language
North Agaw alternativeName Bilen language
Bogo languageSpoken Bilen language