Massa language
Massa | |
---|---|
Masana | |
Native to | Chad, Cameroon |
Native speakers | (230,000 cited 1982–2006)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
mcn |
Glottolog |
masa1322 Manasa[2]gize1234 Gizey[3]hama1241 Ham[4] |
Massa (or Masana, Masa) is a Chadic language spoken in southern Chad and northern Cameroon by the Masa people. It has approximately 200,000 speakers.
Dialects are Bongor, Bugudum (Budugum), Domo, Gizay, Gumay, Ham, Walia, Wina (Viri), Yagwa.
Kim, a neighbouring language, was once misclassified as Masa.
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ | |
voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | |||
implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ɬ | h | ||
voiced | v | z | ɮ | ɦ | |||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
Trill | r | ||||||
Approximant | w | l | j |
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i iː | u uː | |
Mid | e eː | o oː | |
Open | a aː |
References
- ↑ Massa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Manasa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gizey". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ham". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ De Dominicis, Amedeo (2001). The Masa tonal system. University of Tuscia, Viterbo (Italy).
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