Leti | |
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Native to | Cameroon |
Ethnicity | Mengisa |
Native speakers | "small population" (2014)
[1] ritual L2 use |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:
leo – Leti
mct – Mengisa (duplicate code) |
Glottolog |
leti1245 |
A.63 (Mengisa)
[2] |
Leti, or Mangisa, is a Bantu language of Cameroon, spoken by the Mengisa people. Most Mengisa have switched to the Eton language, though a number of them continue to use Leti as a secret ritual language. A smaller number speak Leti as their mother tongue. [1]
Leti is quite close to Tuki and may be a dialect. [3] It is also closely related to Eton. [4]
Mengisa is spoken in the northern part of Sa'a commune (in Lekié department, Central Region). [4]