Alternate Names: Cane, Nchane, Nchaney, Nchanti, Ntshanti
Dialects: Mungong (Mungom), Ncane. Member of the Eastern Beboid subgroup. Lexical similarity: 84% with Sari ,, 88% with Noone ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 15,500 (2002 SIL).
Language Use: Younger people tend to leave village for larger towns for school or work. Home, market, church. All ages. Positive attitudes. Also use Cameroon Pidgin [wes], English [eng]. Used as L2 by Sari [asj].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 0%. Literacy program started 2011. Schooling is in English [eng].
Typology: SVO word order; prepositions; noun head initial; 15 noun classes; content-question word predominantly clause final; clause constituents marked by word order; 17 consonant phonemes, 7 vowel phonemes; tonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Cameroon
Other Comments: Christian, traditional religion.