Twendi language

Twendi
Cambap
Native toCameroon
Ethnicityone thousand (1991)[1]
Native speakers
30 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3twn
Glottologtwen1242
ELPTwendi

Twendi, or Cambap as it is also known, is a nearly extinct Mambiloid language of Cameroon. Speakers have largely shifted to the closely related language Kwanja, and Twendi has not been passed down to children for decades. The language is spoken in the villages of Cambap and Sanga on the Tikar Plain by no more than 30 people, the youngest of whom were born in the 1940s.[2]

  1. ^ a b Twendi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Connell, B. (2002). Aspects of the phonetics of Cambap. Studies in African Linguistics, 31 (1 & 2)