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{{Short description|West Chadic language}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Belnəng
|altname=Belning 
|nativename=
|states=[[Nigeria]]
|region=[[Shendam]] LGA, [[Plateau State]]
|speakers=500
|date=2017
|ref=<ref name="Blench2017"/>
|familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
|fam2=[[Chadic languages|Chadic]]
|fam3=[[West Chadic languages|West Chadic]]
|fam4=[[Bole–Angas languages|Bole–Angas]]
|fam5=[[Angas languages|Angas]] (A.3)
|fam6=
|iso3=glb
|glotto=beln1234
|glottorefname=Belneng
}}

'''Belnəng''' (Belneng, Bəlnəng, Belning, Bɨlnɨng) is a [[West Chadic languages|West Chadic]] language of [[Shendam]] LGA, [[Plateau State]], [[Nigeria]] closely related to [[Ngas language|Angas]]. It is spoken by about 500 people in the single village of Langung, which is surrounded by [[Tal language|Tal]] villages in the east and [[Miship language|Miship]] villages in the west (Blench 2017).<ref name="Blench2017">Blench, Roger. 2017. [https://www.academia.edu/35507157/CURRENT_RESEARCH_ON_THE_A3_WEST_CHADIC_LANGUAGES Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages].</ref> It is documented in Blench & Bulkaam (2019).<ref name="Blench">Blench, Roger & Michael Bulkaam. 2019. "[https://www.academia.edu/41053989/Beln%D3%99ng_an_undocumented_Chadic_language_of_Central_Nigeria Belnəng, an undocumented Chadic language of Central Nigeria]." Manuscript. Jos, Nigeria.</ref>

==Lexicon==
Some Belneng names of plants and animals:<ref name="Blench"/>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Belneng name !! Belneng name in IPA !! English name !! Scientific name
|-
| bәbar || bə̀bāɾ || house bat || ''[[Scotophilus]]'' spp.
|-
| ɓip || ɓíp || grasscutter || ''[[Thryonomys swinderianus]]''
|-
| ɓwaar || ɓʷāːɾ || [[yam (vegetable)|yam]] || ''[[Dioscorea]]'' spp.
|-
| dashim || dàʃīm || [[monitor lizard]] || ''[[Varanus exanthematicus]]''
|-
| ɗiin || ɗìːn || [[fruit bat]] || ''[[Rousettus aegyptiacus]]''
|-
| fwem || fʷɛḿ  || [[African fish eagle]] || ''[[Haliaeetus vocifer]]''
|-
| goktaa || ɡɔ́ktáː || [[black and white-lipped cobra]] || ''[[Naja melanoleuca]] subfulva''
|-
| gwan || ɡʷàn || [[cocoyam]]; [[taro]] || ''[[Colocasia esculenta]]''
|-
| kaap || kāːp || [[baboon]] || ''[[Papio anubis]]''
|-
| kәn || kə̄n || [[African buffalo|buffalo]]; [[bush cow]] || ''[[Syncerus caffer]]''
|-
| kut || kút || [[crocodile]] || ''[[Crocodylus niloticus]]''
|-
| kyek || kʲɛḱ  || [[porcupine]] || ''[[Hystrix cristata]]''
|-
| lәshim || lə̀ʃìm || [[leopard]] || ''[[Panthera pardus]]''
|-
| lututut || lútūtūt || [[Senegal coucal]] || ''[[Centropus senegalensis]]''
|-
| mer || mɛɾ̄  || [[Python sebae|rock python]] || ''[[Python sebae]]''
|-
| mfәt || ɱfə̀t || [[mosquito]] || ''[[Anopheles]]'' spp.
|-
| mura || mùɾá || [[jackal]] || ''[[Canis adustus]]''
|-
| nakwom || nàkʷɔ̄m || [[francolin]]; [[bush-fowl]] || ''[[Francolinus]]'' spp.
|-
| ngaan || ŋàːn || [[spitting cobra]] || ''[[Naja nigricollis]] nigricollis''
|-
| ngwanglang || ᵑɡʷàŋlàŋ || [[millipede]] || ''[[Iule]]'' spp.
|-
| njolong || ⁿʤɔ̀lɔ̀ŋ || mason wasp || ''[[Belonogaster]] griseus''
|-
| nkalәng || ᵑkàlə́ŋ || [[pied crow]] || ''[[Corvus albus]]''
|-
| nkamu || ᵑkàmù || [[hyena]] || ''[[Hyaena hyaena]]''
|-
| nkiikii || ᵑkīːkíː || [[praying mantis]] || ''[[Sphodromantis]] phyllocrana''
|-
| nlang || ⁿlāŋ || [[lizard]] || ''[[Agama agama]]''
|-
| nwup || ⁿwūp || [[giant pouched rat|giant rat]]; [[pouched rat]] || ''[[Cricetomys gambianus]]''
|-
| paap || pàːp || [[red-flanked duiker]] || ''[[Cephalophus rufilatus]]''
|-
| pit || pìt || [[patas monkey]] || ''[[Erythrocebus patas]]''
|-
| pupur || púpūɾ || [[hedgehog]] || ''[[Atelerix albiventris]]''
|-
| shangkәn || ʃáŋkə̄n || wall [[gecko]] || [[Gekkonidae]]
|-
| shomgot || ʃɔ̀mɡɔ̀t || [[dassie]]; rock rabbit; [[rock hyrax]] || ''[[Procavia capensis]]''
|-
| shwishwen || ʃʷīʃʷɛn̄  || [[aerial yam]] || ''[[Dioscorea bulbifera]]''
|-
| shwom || ʃʷɔ̀m || [[guinea-fowl]] || ''[[Numida meleagris]]''
|-
| tanglap || tàŋlàp || [[nightjar]] || ''[[Caprimulgus]]'' spp.
|}

==References==
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