Dii languages

Dii
Duru
RegionCameroon
Native speakers
(60,000 cited 1982–1997)[1]
DialectsMambe’
Mamna’a
Goom
Boow
Ngbang
Phaane
Sagzee
Vaazin
Home
Nyok
Duupa
Dugun (Panõ)
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
dur – Dii
dae – Duupa
ndu – Dugun
Glottologdiic1235

The Dii language is a dialect cluster in the Duru branch of Savanna languages. Yag Dii is the ethnonym.

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).

  1. ^ Dii at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) Closed access icon
    Duupa at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) Closed access icon
    Dugun at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) Closed access icon