30296 Somyev 1-9 2 3 1,500 "[Sombə] is now known to be spoken for certain by just three elderly people, though when I first encountered this language a dozen or so years ago there were approximately 20 speakers... Sombə is spoken/used by at most three old people in the village of Kila Yang; the Somyev here number as much as 1,500, perhaps the largest their population has ever been; there are at least two others, semi-speakers, still living at Hore Taram Torbi, brother and sister to the one whom I met in 1996, and who has since died." Language Ecology and Language Endangerment: An instance from the Nigeria-Cameroon borderland On 3 1-9