Ngiemboon language
Appearance
Ngiemboon | |
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Ngyɛmbɔɔŋ | |
Native to | Cameroon |
Region | Province de l'Ouest, Bamboutos |
Native speakers | 250,000 BOCOWI (2000)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nnh |
Glottolog | ngie1241 |
The Ngiemboon (N'Jhamboon) language, Ngyɛmbɔɔŋ, is one of a dozen Bamileke languages spoken in Cameroon.
Dialects are Batcham (Basham), Balatchi (Balaki) and Bamoungong (Bamongoun).
Phonology
The consonants are:
Labial | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |
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Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||
Plosive | p b | t d | k g | ||
Affricate | pf | ts | |||
Fricative | f v | s z | |||
Approximant | w | j | ɰ | ||
Labial Approximant | ɥ |
The vowels are /a/, /ɔ/, /ε/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/.
Ngiemboon is a tonal language, and uses the high tone /˦/, the low tone /˨/, the falling tone /˥˩/, and the rising tone /˩˥/.[2]
References
- ^ Ngiemboon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "PHOIBLE Online -". phoible.org. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
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