Mpade language

Mpadə
Native to Cameroon, Chad
Region Far North Province, Cameroon; west Chad
Native speakers
 16,000 in Cameroon (2004)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mpi
Glottolog mpad1242  Mpade[2]
ngal1301  Ngala[3]

Mpadə is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects are Bodo, Digam, Mpade (Makari), Shoe (Shewe), and Woulki.[4]

The language is sometimes known as Makari, after one of the towns where it is spoken. Ngala further west (as described by Barth) once spoke a dialect similar to Makari, but it was moribund by the 1920s, the people having shifted to Kanuri.

Phonology

Consonants

Mpade has the following consonants.[5]

Labial Coronal Palatal Velar Glottal
Plain Labialized
Stops and
affricates		 Voiceless pttʃkkʷ
Voiced bddʒɡɡʷ
Ejective tsʼtʃʼkʼkʷʼ
Implosive ɓɗ
Prenasalized mbndŋɡ
Fricatives Voiceless fsʃh
Voiced z
Nasals mn
Lateral l
Trill r
Semivowels jw

Vowels

Mpade has the following vowels.[5]

frontback
unrounded		back
rounded
High iɨu
Non-High eao

Notes

  1. ↑ Mpadə at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mpade". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngala of Lake Chad". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Frawley, William J., ed. (2003). "Mpade". International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Volume 1. Oxford University Press. p. 238.
  5. 1 2 Allison 2006.

References

  • Allison, Sean. 2006. Alphabet et orthographe de Kotoko de Makary (mpadɨ) (Makary Kotoko Orthography Statement) SIL manuscript, 31 pp. Available on-line
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