Dii languages
| Dii | |
|---|---|
| Duru | |
| Region | Cameroon |
Native speakers | (60,000 cited 1982–1997) |
Niger–Congo?
| |
| Dialects | Mambe’ Mamna’a Goom Boow Ngbang Phaane Sagzee Vaazin Home Nyok Duupa Dugun (Panõ) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:dur – Diidae – Duupandu – 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).