Kombe language
Appearance
Kombe | |
---|---|
Ngumbi | |
Native to | Equatorial Guinea |
Ethnicity | Kombe people |
Native speakers | 9,200 (2011)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nui |
Glottolog | ngum1255 |
A.33b [2] |
The Kombe language, or Ngumbi, is a Coastal Bantu language spoken by the Kombe people of Equatorial Guinea, one of the Ndowe peoples of the coast. It is mutually intelligible with Yasa.
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | |
voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | h | ||
voiced | v | z | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
Trill | r | |||||
Approximant | w | l | j |
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i iː | u uː | |
Mid | e eː | o oː | |
Open | a aː |
References
- ^ Kombe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
External links