Yeni language explained

Yeni
Region:Cameroon
Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:Benue–Congo
Fam4:Mambiloid
Fam5:Mambila-Konja ?
Extinct:20th century
Iso3:yei
Linglist:yei
Glotto:yeni1253
Glottorefname:Yeni

The Yeni language is an extinct language of Cameroon, formerly spoken around Djeni Mountain in the Nyalang area. All that remains of the language, apparently, is a song remembered by some Sandani speakers. However, according to Bruce Connell (the first linguist to report its existence, in 1995), comparison of the song's words to neighboring languages suggests that "it was closely related to [the [[Mambiloid languages]]] Cambap, Njerep, and Kasabe."[1]

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Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20040814144719/http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/connell/Mori/Moribundlngs.html MORIBUND LANGUAGES OF THE NIGERIA-CAMEROON BORDERLAND