Leti language (Cameroon)
Not to be confused with Leti language (Indonesia).
| Leti | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Cameroon |
| Ethnicity | Mengisa |
Native speakers |
"small population" (2014)[1] ritual L2 use |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: leo – Leti mct – Mengisa (duplicate code)[2] |
| Glottolog |
leti1245[3] |
A.63 (Mengisa)[4] | |
Leti 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.[1]
Leti is quite close to Tuki and may be a dialect.[2]
References
- 1 2 Leti at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Mengisa (duplicate code)[2] at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - 1 2 3 Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Leti (Cameroon)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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