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Mengisa language

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Mengisa
RegionCameroon
Native speakers
(20,000 cited 1979)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mct
Glottologmeng1263
A.63[2]

Mengisa is a Bantu language of Cameroon. It may be mutually intelligible with other Beti dialects such as Ewondo.

The Mengisa people also speak a secret ritual language, Leti.

References

  1. ^ Mengisa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online