Fang language (Cameroon)
Fang 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.
| Fang | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Cameroon |
Native speakers | 4,000 (2011)[1] |
Niger–Congo
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | fak |
| Glottolog | fang1248[2] |
"Fang" is the name of the village the language is spoken in.
Phonology
| Labial | Labiodental | Dental | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | ɱ | n̪ | ɲ | ŋ | |
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t̪ | k | ||
| voiced | b | d̪ | g | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | t̪s̪ | tʃ | kp | ||
| voiced | dʒ | gb | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s̪ | |||
| voiced | v | ʒ | ||||
| Approximant | l̪ | j | w | |||
| Front | Central | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less rounded | Plain | Less rounded | Plain | ||
| Close | i̜ | i | u̜ | u | |
| Close-mid | e | ə | o | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |||
| Open | a | ||||
There are three tones; high, mid, and low.
gollark: Then the fire department burns down your house as vengeance.
gollark: There were some incentive problems.
gollark: It really saves time.
gollark: I only eat something like ten different foods anyway.
gollark: Ah, I see.
References
- Fang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Fang (Cameroon)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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.
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