Leti language (Cameroon)

Not to be confused with Leti language (Indonesia).
Leti
Native to Cameroon
Ethnicity Mengisa
Native speakers
"small population" (2014)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 leo
Glottolog leti1245[2]

Leti is a Bantu language of Cameroon, spoken by the Mengisa people. Most Mengisa speak the Mengisa language, and a number of them use Leti as a secret ritual language. A smaller number speak Leti as their mother tongue.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Leti at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Leti (Cameroon)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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