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Preferred term

yeiYeni  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • 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" .

Entry terms

  • Yeni language

ISO 639-3 code

  • yei

Notation

  • yei

In other languages

  • Yeni

    German

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/yei

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