Region Cameroon | Glottolog diic1235 | |
Native speakers (60,000 cited 1982–1997) Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Leko–Nimbari
Duru
Dii languages
Dii Dialects Mambe’
Mamna’a
Goom
Boow
Ngbang
Phaane
Sagzee
Vaazin
Home
Nyok
Duupa
Dugun (Panõ) ISO 639-3 Variously:
dur – Dii
dae – Duupa
ndu – Dugun | ||
The Dii language is a dialect cluster in the Duru branch of Savanna languages. Yag Dii is the ethnonym.
Ethnologue lists Mambe’, Mamna’a, Goom, Boow, Ngbang, Sagzee, Vaazin, Home, Nyok as dialects, and notes that Goom may be a separate language. Blench (2004) lists them all, as well as Phaane, as separate languages, no closer to each other than they are to the other Dii languages, Duupa, Dugun (Panõ).
References
Dii languages Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA