Mumuye language

Mumuye
	Yoro
Region	northeastern Nigeria
Ethnicity	Mumuye people
Native speakers	(400,000 cited 1993)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Leko–Nimbari Mumuye–Yendang Mumuye Mumuye; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mzm
Glottolog	nucl1240[2]

Mumuye is by far the most populous of the Adamawa languages. It is spoken in northeastern Nigeria. It is classified in the Leko–Nimbari branch of Savanna languages, as Adamawa is no longer considered a valid family. According to Ethnologue, there are multiple dialects: Zinna, Dong, Yoro, Lankaviri, Gola (Bajama), Gongla, Kasaa, Saawa, Jalingo, Nyaaja, Jeng, Gnoore, Yaa, Sagbee, Shaari, Kugong, Mang, Kwaji, Meeka, Yakoko.

Phonology

The Mumuye dialect of the town of Zing has the following inventory:

Zing Mumuye consonants^[3]
	lab.	cor.	pal.	vel.	lab.–vel.
nasal	m	n	ɲ	ŋ	(m͡ŋ)
stop	p b	t d		k ɡ	k͡p ɡ͡b
prestopped nasal	pᵐ bᵐ	tⁿ dⁿ		kᵑ ɡᵑ	k͡pᵐ͡ᵑ ɡ͡bᵐ͡ᵑ
fricative	f v	s z	ʃ ʒ		(?)
nasalized fricative	f̃ ṽ	s̃ z̃	ʃ̃ ʒ̃
sonorant		r	j		w
nasalized sonorant		r̃	(j̃)		w̃

References

↑ Mumuye at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nuclear Mumuye". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Shimizu (1983) and Steriade (1993), cited in Kehrein (2002) Phonological Representation and Phonetic Phasing

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[e18-1] Mumuye at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nuclear Mumuye". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] Shimizu (1983) and Steriade (1993), cited in Kehrein (2002) Phonological Representation and Phonetic Phasing