Le bilen, aussi appelé bilin ou blin, est une langue afro-asiatique faisant partie du groupe des langues agew des langues couchitiques, parlée par les Bilens, ethnie habitant dans le centre de l’Érythrée, dans la région de Keren, et à Kassala dans l’Est du Soudan. Elle est parlée par environ 100 000 personnes.
Écriture
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Sources
- (byn) Tekie Alibekit, ብሊና ክታበትዲ ግብራ ጋቡዅዲ ድሞ ጠፍሓ ሕቱም = Bilin language introductory phonetics and grammar, revised edition, (1re éd. 1992) (lire en ligne)
- (en) Tekie Alibekit, Blin language registered in the Unicode Standard, 2004–2018 (lire en ligne)
- (byn) Tekie Alibekit, Kiflemariam Hamde et Fessehazion Zemicael, ጠፍሓት ብሲና ክታበቱዅ = Some standardization of Blin writing, Stockholm, (lire en ligne)
- (en) The Ge'ez Frontier Foundation, Principles and specification for mnemonic Ethiopic keyboards, (keyboards.ethiopic.org/specification/)
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