Gbeya language
Gbeya | |
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Native to | Central African Republic |
Native speakers | ca. 250,000 (1996–2005)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
Either:gbp – Gbaya-Bossangoasqm – Suma |
Glottolog |
gbey1244 [2] |
Gbeya (Gbɛ́yá, Gbaya-Bossangoa) is a Gbaya language of the Central African Republic. Ethnologue reports it may be mutually intelligible with Bozom.[3]
Phonology
Consonants
Bilabial | Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labialvelar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | kp | ʔ | |||
voiced | b | d | ɡ | ɡb | |||||
prenasalized | mb | nd | ŋɡ | ŋmɡb | |||||
ingressive | ɓ | ɗ | |||||||
Nasal | preglottalized | ˀm | ˀn | ||||||
plain | m | n | ŋ | ŋm | |||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | h | |||||
voiced | v | z | |||||||
Lateral | l | ||||||||
Tap/Flap | ⱱ | ɾ | |||||||
Approximant | j | w |
Vowels
Front | Back | |
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Close | i | u |
Close-mid | e | o |
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ |
Open | a |
References
- ↑ Gbaya-Bossangoa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Suma at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gbeya–Suma". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Samarin, William J. (1966). The Gbeya language: Grammar, texts, and vocabularies (PDF). ASIN B000S2UYWE. hdl:1807/67174. OCLC 897343. Book reviewed in both Courtenay, Karen (1 January 1968). "Review of The Gbeya Language: Grammar, Texts, and Vocabularies". Language. 44 (2): 420–423. doi:10.2307/411642. JSTOR 411642, and Crabb, David W. (1969). ": The Gbeya Language: Grammar, Texts, and Vocabularies . William J. Samarin". American Anthropologist. 71 (2): 365. doi:10.1525/aa.1969.71.2.02a00600.
- ↑ Samarin, William J. (1966). The Gbeya Language Grammar, Texts, and Vocabularies (PDF). University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles.
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