Leti, or Mangisa, is a Bantu language of

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, spoken by the Mengisa people. Most Mengisa have switched to the

Eton language Eton, or Ìtón, is a Bantu language spoken by the Eton people of Cameroon.Velde, Mark L. O. Van de. ''A Grammar of Eton'', p. 3 It is mutually intelligible with Ewondo, a fact which may have delayed its study for some time. Eton speakers in ...

, though a number of them continue to use Leti as a secret ritual language. A smaller number speak Leti as their mother tongue. Leti is quite close to Tuki and may be a dialect.Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices It is also closely related to Eton. Mengisa is spoken in the northern part of Sa'a commune (in

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department, Central Region).

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