Bana language
| Bana | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Cameroon |
| Region | Far North Province |
Native speakers | 23,000 (2007)[1] |
|
Afro-Asiatic
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bcw |
| Glottolog |
bana1305[2] |
Bana is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects include Gamboura and Gili.[1]
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labialized velar | Uvular | Labialized uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ŋʷ | ||||
| Voiceless plosive | p | t | k | kʷ | ʔ ʔʷ | |||
| Voiced plosive | b | d | ɡ | ɡʷ | ||||
| Prenasalized plosive | mb | nd ndz | ŋɡ | ŋɡʷ | ||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||||
| Affricate | ts dz | |||||||
| Fricative | f v | s z | χ ʁ | χʷ ʁʷ | ||||
| Flap | ⱱ | ɾ | ||||||
| Approximant | j | w |
The vowels of Bana are /ɨ ə ɛ/, which can occur with high, falling, low, or rising tone. [3]
Notes
- 1 2 Bana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bana". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hofmann, Erica. 1990. A preliminary phonology of bana. University of Victoria. (MA thesis).
References
- Hofmann, Erica (1990). A Preliminary Phonology of Bana (PDF) (M.A. thesis). University of Victoria. OCLC 27946722.
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