ISO 639-3 yei | Extinct 20th century Glottolog yeni1253 | |
Language family Niger–CongoAtlantic–CongoBenue–CongoMambiloidMambila-Konja ?Yeni | ||
The Yeni language is an extinct language of Cameroon, formerly spoken around Djeni Mountain in the Nyalang area. All that remains of the language, apparently, is a song remembered by some Sandani speakers. However, according to Bruce Connell (the first linguist to report its existence, in 1995), comparison of the song's words to neighboring languages suggests that "it was closely related to [the Mambiloid languages] Cambap, Njerep, and Kasabe"[1].
References
Yeni language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA