Leti | |
States: | Cameroon |
Ethnicity: | Mengisa |
Speakers: | "small population" |
Speakers2: | ritual L2 use |
Date: | 2014 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo languages |
Fam3: | Benue–Congo languages |
Fam4: | Southern Bantoid languages |
Fam5: | Bantu |
Fam6: | Mbam |
Fam7: | Sanaga |
Fam8: | Tuki? |
Lc1: | leo |
Ld1: | Leti |
Lc2: | mct |
Ld2: | Mengisa (duplicate code) |
Glotto: | leti1245 |
Glottorefname: | Leti (Cameroon) |
Guthrie: | A.63 (Mengisa) |
Leti, or Mangisa, is a Bantu language of Cameroon, spoken by the Mengisa people. Most Mengisa have switched to the Eton language, though a number of them continue to use Leti as a secret ritual language. A smaller number speak Leti as their mother tongue.
Leti is quite close to Tuki and may be a dialect.[1] It is also closely related to Eton.
Mengisa is spoken in the northern part of Sa'a commune (in Lekié department, Central Region).[2]