Mundabli language

Mundabli is a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. It is traditionally classified as a Western Beboid language, but that has not been demonstrated to be a valid family.

Mundabli
Ji
Native toCameroon
Native speakers
500 (2011)[1]
Dialects
  • Mundabli
  • Mufu
Language codes
ISO 639-3boe
Glottologmund1328
ELPMundabli-Mufu

"Mundabli" is a village name. The language is spoken in the villages of Mundabli and Mufu. The neighboring village of Buu speaks a distinct language.

Phonology
Mundabli Consonant Phonemes[2]
Labial Dental Palatal Velar
Plain Labial
Nasal m n̪ ɲ ŋ
Plosive voiceless t̪ k
voiced b d̪ g
Affricate voiceless t̪s̪ tʃ kp
voiced d̪z̪ dʒ gb
Fricative f s̪ ʃ
Approximant l̪ j ɥ w
Mundabli Vowel Phonemes[3]
Front Central Back
Plain Lowered Lowered Plain
Close i ɪ ɨ ʊ u
Close-mid e ə o
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a ɒ

There are four tones; extra high, high, mid, and low.

References
  1. Mundabli at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Good, Jeff and Lovegren, Jesse and Mve, Jean Patrick and Tchiemouo, Nganguep Carine and Voll, Rebecca and Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. 2011. The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview. Africana Linguistica 17. 101–164.
  3. Good, Jeff and Lovegren, Jesse and Mve, Jean Patrick and Tchiemouo, Nganguep Carine and Voll, Rebecca and Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. 2011. The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview. Africana Linguistica 17. 101–164.
  • Blench, Roger, 2011. 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.
  • Good, Jeff, & Jesse Lovegren. 2009. 'Reassessing Western Beboid'. Bantu III.
  • Good, Jeff, & Scott Farrar. 2008. 'Western Beboid and African language classification'. LSA.
  • Voll, R.M. (2017). A grammar of Mundabli: a Bantoid (Yemne-Kimbi) language of Cameroon (Doctoral thesis). LOT (Leiden University). hdl:1887/56258. ISBN 9789460932540.


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