Leti is a Bantu language of
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...
, spoken by the
Mengisa people. Most Mengisa have switched to the
Eton language
Eton, or Ìtón, is a Bantu language spoken by the Eton people of Cameroon.Velde, Mark L. O. Van de. ''A Grammar of Eton'', p. 3
It is mutually intelligible with Ewondo, a fact which may have delayed its study for some time.
Eton speakers i ...
, 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.][ It is also closely related to Eton.]
Mengisa is spoken in the northern part of Sa'a commune (in Lekié
Lekié is a department of Centre Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 2,989 km and had a total population of 354,864. The capital of the department lies at Monatélé.
It is named after the Lekié River.
Subdivisions
T ...
department, Central Region).
References
Ritual languages
Mbam languages
Languages of Cameroon
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