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(Redirected from Cinene language) Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria
Cineni
Native toNigeria
RegionBorno State
Native speakers(3,000 cited 1998)
Language familyAfro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3cie
Glottologcine1238

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.

Notes

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