Denya language

"Denya" redirects here. For the character in the television series Stargate SG-1, see Ori (Stargate) § Anti-Ori underground. For the village in Iran, see Dinachal.

Denya
Anyah
Native to	Cameroon
Native speakers	(11,200 cited 1982)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Mamfe Denya
Dialects	Basho Bitieku Takamanda Bajwo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`anv`
Glottolog	`deny1238`^[2]

Denya is a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon in the Mamfe family. The dialects are divergent enough to perhaps be considered separate languages.

References

↑ Denya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Denya". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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