# Noni language

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The **Noni language**, also called **Noone**, is an [Eastern Beboid language](/source/Eastern_Beboid_language) of the [Niger–Congo](/source/Niger%E2%80%93Congo) family in [Cameroon](/source/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](/source/Saari_language) (Nsari).

Noni is the [native language](/source/Native_language) to 40,000 people in the country, particularly in the [North West Province](/source/North-West_Province,_Cameroon), the Bui Division and the northwest [Kumbo](/source/Kumbo) Subdivision. Noone proper was used as the secret language in Indiana Jones.[citation needed]

## Relevant literature

- Boutwell, Richard. 2020. *[A grammar of Nchane: A Bantoid (Beboid) language of Cameroon](https://www.lotpublications.nl/a-grammar-of-nchane-a-bantoid-beboid-language-of-cameroon).* [University of Leiden: PhD dissertation.](https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/123113)
- [Hyman, Larry M.](/source/Larry_Hyman) 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.

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