"Youngest speaker aged about 60"

"Apparently, the Njerep language is no longer used for communication. Instead, people now use the language of the surrounding community, Ba or Mvop."

"Njerep today is not a language of daily use. It is known--or remembered--by a small handful of people.... Of six people who have some scattered knowledge of the language, there is but one elderly man, Mial, who may still be capable of conversing in it to any extent."

"In its terminal stage, the language has been used primarily for greetings, joking, occasionally to share secrets, and its songs sung to recall the past. These functions have apparently died with [the last speaker]."

"It [Njerep] is no longer used on a daily basis, though when together the few people who know the language may use it for joking or if they don't want to be understood by others."

"The Njerep speakers and their children listed Mvop, the Mambila lect (also called Ba) of the surrounding community, as the language of daily use, both inside and outside the home. Most also know some Fulfulde, and the younger ones (i.e. those who have been to school) also have some command of French, though use of these two languages is generally restricted to specific situations. Other languages, particularly the Mambila lect of Mbar, spoken mainly at Mbar on the Mambila plateau, are also spoken in the hamlet of Mvamngo"