Yeni (language)
| Yeni | ||
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Spoken in |
Cameroon | |
| speaker | 0 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
yei |
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The Yeni language is an extinct bantoid language of Cameroon , which was spoken earlier around Mount Djeni in the Nyalang area.
The existence of the language could still be established in 1995. The only remaining linguistic monument was the text of a song that some Sandani speakers could still remember. A lexical comparison revealed a relationship between the Yeni and the mambiloid languages Cambap , Njerep and Kasabe .
The speakers of the Yeni mostly went over to the languages that have been the official and teaching languages of Cameroon since the British-French colonial rule - namely English and French .
literature
- Connell, Bruce (1995). Dying Languages and the Complexity of the Mambiloid Group . Paper presented at the 25th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden.
Web links
- http://llmap.org/languages/yei.html (link not available)
- Information about the Yeni language from the multi-tree project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lucy.ukc.ac.uk: Moribund languages ( Memento from August 14, 2004 in the Internet Archive )