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Yeni language

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Region
  
Cameroon

ISO 639-3
  
yei

Extinct
  
20th century

Glottolog
  
yeni1253

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Mambiloid Mambila-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