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Mbembe language

Mbembe
Native toNigeria
Native speakers
(100,000 cited 1982)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mfn – inclusive code
Individual code:
oda – Odut village
Glottologcros1244
ELPOdut

Mbembe is a Cross River language of Nigeria. Odut,[2] a divergent variety spoken in a village far South of the rest of Mbembe, had 20 speakers in 1980 and may be extinct.[3]

Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Labio-
dental
Alveolar Palatal Velar Labio-
velar
Nasal plain m n ɲ ŋ
fortis
Plosive/
Affricate
voiceless p t t͡ʃ k k͡p
voiced b d d͡ʒ ɡ ɡ͡b
fortis k͡pː
Fricative voiceless ɸ f s
voiced β v
fortis
Tap ɾ
Approximant l j w

Vowels

Front Central Back
High i (ɨ) u
Near-high (ɪ) (ʊ)
High-mid e eː o oː
Low-mid ɛ ɔ ɔː
Low a aː
Phoneme/Sound Allophones Occurrence
/i/ [i] [ɨ] in closed syllables except when following /j/ or palatalized consonants
[ɪ] in closed syllables when following /j/ or palatalized consonants
[i] elsewhere
/u/ [u] [u̟] in closed syllables except when following /w/ or labialized consonants
[ʊ] in extended syllable-pieces except when following /w/ or labialized consonants
[u] elsewhere

[4]

References

  1. ^ Mbembe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Odut village at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Blench (2013) An Atlas of Nigerian Languages
  3. ^ "Odut". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  4. ^ Barnwell, Katherine Grace Lowry (1969). A Grammatical Description of Mbembe (Adun Dialect)- A cross river language. University College London.


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