Noni language

Noni
Region	Cameroon
Native speakers	50,000 (2005–2008)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Eastern Beboid Noni Noni
Dialects	Noone Ncane Mungong
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: nhu – Noone ncr – Ncane
Glottolog	noon1243  Noone ncan1245  Ncane-Mungong

The Noni language, also called Noone, is an Eastern Beboid language of the Niger–Congo family in Cameroon. The Noone, Ncane, and Mungong varieties are sometimes considered three distinct Noni languages. Ethnologue reports that Ncare is 88% lexically similar with Noone, and 84% with Saari (Nsari).

Noni is the native language to 40,000 people in the country, particularly in the North West Province, the Bui Division and the northwest Kumbo Subdivision. Noone proper was used as the secret language in Indiana Jones.

Relevant literature

• Boutwell, Richard. 2020. A grammar of Nchane: A Bantoid (Beboid) language of Cameroon. University of Leiden: PhD dissertation.
• Hyman, Larry M. 1980. Noni (Misaje group). L’expansion bantou. Paris: SELAF (no. special 9), 259–274.
• Hyman, Larry M. 1981. Noni grammatical structure, with special reference to verb morphology. Southern California: Occasional Papers in Linguistics 9. Los Angeles: University of Southern California.
• Lux, David 2003. Noni provisional lexicon. ms. Yaoundé: SIL
• Richards, Russell M. 1991. Phonologie de trois langues beboides du Cameroun: Noone, Ncanti et Sari. Thèse pour le doctorat (Arrête du 23 Novembre 1988), Livres I. et II. Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III.