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 toCameroon
Native speakers
4,000 (2011)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3fak
Glottologfang1248[2]

"Fang" is the name of the village the language is spoken in.

Phonology

Fang Consonant Phonemes[3]
Labial Labiodental Dental Palatal Velar
Nasal m ɱ ɲ ŋ
Plosive voiceless p k
voiced b g
Affricate voiceless t̪s̪ kp
voiced gb
Fricative voiceless f
voiced v ʒ
Approximant j w


Fang Vowel Phonemes[3]
Front Central Back
Less rounded Plain Less rounded Plain
Close i u
Close-mid e ə o
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a

There are three tones; high, mid, and low.

gollark: Also, join our cool server.
gollark: FTB is not a pack.
gollark: (It runs on LEU 235 Ox as a pulse reactor)
gollark: We even have an automatic power plant control system. If someone ctrl-t's the program to edit the code without flipping the manual control to off it could even melt!
gollark: Compromise: the power plant itself is TMI. The island is sheep island or whatever.

References

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


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