Duli language

Duli (Gewe, Gueve, Gey) is an extinct Adamawa language of northern Cameroon.

Duli
Duli-Gewe
Regionnorthern Cameroon
Extinct(date missing)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3duz
Glottologduli1241[2]

Blench (2004) links Duli to the extinct Gey (Gewe) language; Glottolog states that Gey is undemonstrated as a distinct language.[3] Duli and Gewe (Gey) were closely related language varieties, and were probably dialects of the same language according to Kleinewillinghöfer (2015). They were spoken around the confluence of the Benue and Mayo-Kebbi Rivers, and are documented by a word list in Strümpell (1922/23).[4]

Although Boyd (1989:184)[5] had classified Duli as one of the Duru languages, Kleinewillinghöfer finds no evidence of it being a Duru language and treats it as a separate group within the Adamawa–Gur continuum.[6]

References
  1. Duli at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996).
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Duli-Gewe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gey". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Strümpell, F. 1922/23. 'Wörterverzeichnis der Heidensprachen des Mandaragebirges', Zeitschrift für Eingeborenensprachen 13: 47-75, 109-149.
  5. Boyd, Raymond. 1989. Adamawa-Ubangi. - in: Bendor-Samuel, John. (ed.) The Niger-Congo languages. Lanham - New York - London: Summer Institute of Linguistics; 178-215.
  6. Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich. 2015. Duli – Gewe (Gueve, Gey). Adamawa Languages Project.
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