Mundabli-Mufu language
| Mundabli-Mufu | |
|---|---|
| Ji | |
| Native to | Cameroon |
Native speakers | 500 (2011)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | boe |
| Glottolog | mund1328 |
| ELP | Mundabli-Mufu |
Mundabli-Mufu is a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. It is traditionally classified as a Western Beboid language, but that has not been demonstrated to be a valid family.
The language is spoken in the villages of Mundabli (6°36′23″N 10°16′23″E / 6.6063122°N 10.2729361°E) and Mufu. The neighboring village of Buu speaks a closely related but distinct language.
Phonology
| Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain | Labial | |||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | t̪ | k | |||
| voiced | b | d̪ | g | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | t̪s̪ | tʃ | kp | ||
| voiced | d̪z̪ | dʒ | gb | |||
| Fricative | f | s̪ | ʃ | |||
| Approximant | l̪ | j | ɥ | w | ||
| Front | Central | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain | Lowered | Lowered | Plain | ||
| Close | i | ɪ | ɨ | ʊ | u |
| Close-mid | e | ə | o | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |||
| Open | a | ɒ | |||
There are four tones; extra high, high, mid, and low.
References
- ^ Mundabli-Mufu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Good, Jeff and Lovegren, Jesse and Mve, Jean Patrick and Tchiemouo, Nganguep Carine and Voll, Rebecca and Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. 2011. The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview. Africana Linguistica 17. 101–164.
- ^ Good, Jeff and Lovegren, Jesse and Mve, Jean Patrick and Tchiemouo, Nganguep Carine and Voll, Rebecca and Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. 2011. The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview. Africana Linguistica 17. 101–164.
- Blench, Roger, 2011. 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.
- Good, Jeff, & Jesse Lovegren. 2009. 'Reassessing Western Beboid'. Bantu III.
- Good, Jeff, & Scott Farrar. 2008. 'Western Beboid and African language classification'. LSA.
- Voll, R.M. (2017). A grammar of Mundabli: a Bantoid (Yemne-Kimbi) language of Cameroon (Doctoral thesis). LOT (Leiden University). hdl:1887/56258. ISBN 9789460932540.