Glottolog leti1245 | Ethnicity Mengisa | |
Native speakers "small population" (2014)ritual L2 use Language family Niger–CongoAtlantic–CongoBenue–CongoSouthern BantoidMbamSanagaTukiLeti ISO 639-3 Either:leo – Letimct – Mengisa (duplicate code) | ||
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.
Leti is quite close to Tuki and may be a dialect.
References
Leti language (Cameroon) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA