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Language: Bench

Population of Groups Speaking

635,000

People Groups Speaking as Primary Language

Scripture Status

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Map Notes

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Photo	People Group ▲	Country	Population	Progress Scale
	Bench	Ethiopia	635,000	5 ●
	Totals: 1			0 ●

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Photo	People Group ▲	Country	Population	Progress Scale
	No reported people groups speaking this as secondary language
	Totals: 0			0 ●

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Item	Value
Status	Living
Ethnologue Code	bcq
Written	Yes
Bible Translation	Complete Bible
Progress Scale	●

More Information
Ethnologue
GRN MapApp
ISO639-3
PeopleGroups.org
Glottolog
Wikipedia

Language Alternate Names
Bench (Bencho)
Benchnon
Bencho
Bencnon
Benesho
Dizu
Ghimarra
Gimarra
Gimira
Kaba
Mer (Mieru)
Mieru
Sce
She (Kaba)

Dialects
Bench
Dezi
Mer
She

Dialect Alternate Names
Bench: Dezi
Bench: Mer
Bench: She
Kaba
Madji
Maji
Mieru
Sce

Bible Translation	Year / Status
Bible Portions	1991
New Testament	1990
Complete Bible	2023

Possible Print Bibles
Amazon
Virtual Storehouse
Forum Bible Agencies
National Bible Societies
World Bible Finder

Resource Directories
Scripture Earth
Language Archives
Linguist List
SIL Resources

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Format ▲	Resource (Direct link)	Source (General link)
Audio Recordings	Audio Bible teaching	Global Recordings Network
Film / Video	Jesus Film: view in Bench	Jesus Film Project
Film / Video	World Christian Videos	World Christian Videos
General	Faith Comes By Hearing - Bible in text or audio or video	Faith Comes by Hearing
General	Faith Comes By Hearing - Bible in text or audio or video	Faith Comes by Hearing
General	Scripture Earth Gospel resources links	Scripture Earth

The Joshua Project Progress Scale is an estimate of the progress of church planting among a people group, people cluster, country or language. The Progress Scale is derived from people group values for percent Evangelical and percent Christian Adherent.

Level	Description	Criteria
1	Unreached - Few evangelicals and few who identify as Christians. Little, if any, history of Christianity.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians <= 5%
2	Minimally reached - Few evangelicals, but significant number who identify as Christians.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 5% and <= 50%
3	Superficially reached - Few evangelicals, but many who identify as Christians. In great need of spiritual renewal and commitment to biblical faith.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 50%
4	Partially reached - Evangelicals have a modest presence.	Evangelicals > 2% and <= 10%
5	Significantly reached - Evangelicals have a significant presence.	Evangelicals > 10%

Disclaimers:

Joshua Project data is drawn from many sources and of varying accuracy depending on source and editorial decisions. Populations are scaled to the current year. Other data may have varying ages. We welcome updates.
Joshua Project occasionally adjusts profile text from third party sources. This is done to avoid confusion regarding the current reality of a people group, to fix grammar and spelling and to avoid potentially offensive wording.
A displayed zero can mean true zero, a very small rounded number or sometimes unknown. Blanks mean an unknown value.
Data is not as precise as it appears. Values for %Christian Adherent and %Evangelical (which determine unreached status) are often informed estimates, some more accurate than others. We recommend against using %Christian Adherent and %Evangelical to calculate absolute numbers.
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