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Njerep

Njerep

Critically endangeredNiger-Congo, MambiloidCameroonAbout 4 speakers recorded in 20180 documented words

Njerep is spoken by a handful of people on the Mambila plateau of Cameroon and is no longer used for everyday communication even among them.

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History and language shift

Bruce Connell and David Zeitlyn documented the language in Njerep: A Postcard from the Edge (2000), describing a language already reduced to fragmentary knowledge.

Revitalization

Documentation rather than revival has been the focus; the recorded corpus is small.