Maɗa language

Not to be confused with Mada language (Nigeria).

Maɗa
Native to	Cameroon
Region	Far North Province
Native speakers	(17,000 cited 1982)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara Wandala–Mafa Mafa (A.5) South (a) Maɗa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mxu
Glottolog	mada1293

Maɗa is a Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon. It has 17,000 speakers.

Vowels

Maɗa has seven vowels.

	Front	Middle	Back
High	i		u
Middle	e ø	ə	o
Low		a

Consonants

Maɗa has 25 consonants in total, including implosives, lateral fricatives, and prenasalized stops.

		Labial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Velar	Glottal	Rounded Glottal
Stop	Tenuis	p		t		k	kʷ
	Voiced	b		d		g	ɡʷ
	Implosive	ɓ		ɗ
	Prenasalized	ᵐb		ⁿd		ᵑg
Nasal		m		n		ŋ
Fricative	Tenuis		f	s				h	hʷ
	Voiced		v	z
Lateral fricative	Tenuis			ɬ
	Voiced			ɮ
Affricate	Tenuis			ts
	Voiced			dz
	Prenasalized			ⁿdz
Rhotic				r
Approximate		w			j
Lateral approximate				l

References

• Daniel Barreteau & André Brunet. 2000. Dictionnaire mada. Berlin: Reimer.
• http://pbase.phon.chass.ncsu.edu/language/322