Karang language

Karang
Mbum
Laka
Native to Cameroon, Chad
Native speakers
17,000 in Cameroon (2007)[1]
1,000 of Karang, Ngumi, Sakpu, and Mbere in Chad (1995)
Dialects
  • Karang
  • Ngumi
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kzr
Glottolog kara1478[2]

Karang language (also called Mbum East or Lakka) is an Mbum language of Cameroon.

Writing system

Karang alphabet
Uppercase ABƁDƊ EFGGBH IKKPLM MBMGBNNDNZ ŊŊGOƆP RSTUV VBWYƳZ
Lowercase abɓdɗ efggbh ikkplm mbmgbnndnz ŋŋgoɔp rstuv vbwyƴz

Nasalisation is indicated with a cedilla : a̧, ȩ, i̧, o̧, ɔ̧, u̧.

The only tone is high, indicated with an acute accent: á, é, í, ó, ɔ́, ú; it can be combined with nasalisation: á̧, ȩ́, í̧, ó̧, ú̧.

Long vowels are indicated with an h.

References

  1. Karang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Karang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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