Cineni language

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Cineni
Native to Nigeria
Region Borno State
Native speakers
3,000 (1998) [1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cie
Glottolog cine1238

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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