Dii languages

Dii
Duru
Region	Cameroon
Native speakers	(60,000 cited 1982–1997)[1]
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[2]

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).

References

1. Dii at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
   Duupa at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
   Dugun at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Diic". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

• Roger Blench, 2004. List of Adamawa languages (ms)