Bana language
Bana | |
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Native to | Cameroon |
Region | Far North Province |
Native speakers | 23,000 (2007)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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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 | |
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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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