Dii languages
Dialect cluster of Cameroon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dii language is a dialect cluster in the Duru branch of Savanna languages. Yag Dii is the ethnonym.
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Dii | |
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Duru | |
Region | Cameroon |
Native speakers | (60,000 cited 1982–1997)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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Dialects | Mambe’ Mamna’a Goom Boow Ngbang Phaane Sagzee Vaazin Home Nyok Duupa Dugun (Panõ) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:dur – Diidae – Duupandu – Dugun |
Glottolog | diic1235 |
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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).