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. 1 2 Leti at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Mengisa (duplicate code)[2] at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. 1 2 3 Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Leti (Cameroon)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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