Dii languages

Dii
Dii
Duru
Region	Cameroon
Native speakers	(60,000 cited 1982–1997)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Leko–Nimbari Duru Dii languages Dii; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Mambe’; Mamna’a; Goom; Boow; Ngbang; Phaane; Sagzee; Vaazin; Home; Nyok; Duupa; Dugun (Panõ)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; dur – Dii; dae – Duupa; ndu – Dugun
Glottolog	diic1235

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).

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