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Cineni language

Cineni is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Borno State, Nigeria in the single village of Cineni. In a 2006 paper, Roger Blench classified it as a dialect of Guduf-Gava.

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Cineni
Native toNigeria
RegionBorno State
Native speakers
(3,000 cited 1998)1
Language codes
ISO 639-3cie
Glottologcine1238

Cineni is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Borno State, Nigeria in the single village of Cineni.1 In a 2006 paper, Roger Blench classified it as a dialect of Guduf-Gava.2

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  1. Cineni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)