Fe'fe' language
Fe'fe' or Fe'efe'e, also known as Nufi or Bafang (Fe'fe': Nufi), is a Bamileke language spoken in Cameroon, around the town of Bafang. It was one of the four languages selected for option at the Collège Libermann at Douala (along with Duala, Basaa and Banjun).[4]
Fe'fe' | |
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Nufi, Fotouni, Bafang[1] | |
Fe'efe'e | |
Native to | Cameroon |
Region | Haut-Nkam (Upper Nkam) |
Ethnicity | Bamileke Fe'efe'e |
Native speakers | c. 140,000 (2005)[2] |
Niger–Congo
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Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | fmp |
Glottolog | fefe1239 [3] |
Writing system
Uppercase | A | Ɑ | B | C | D | E | Ə | F | G | Gh | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | Ŋ | O | P | S | Sh | T | U | Ʉ | V | W | Y | Z | Zh | ʼ |
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Lowercase | a | ɑ | b | c | d | e | ə | f | g | gh | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | ŋ | o | p | s | sh | t | u | ʉ | v | w | y | z | zh | ʼ |
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Palatal | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||
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plain | labiodental | |||||||
Plosive | voiced | b | d | ɡ | ʔ | |||
voiceless | p | t | c | k | ||||
Fricative | voiced | z | ||||||
voiceless | f | s | v | h | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||
Rhotic | y | |||||||
Approximant | l | j | w |
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References
- OLAC resources in and about the Fe'fe' language. Open Language Archives.
- Fe'fe' at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Fe'fe'". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Patrick Renaud, Le Français au Cameroun in: Le Français hors de France sous la direction de A. Valdman, Editions Honoré Champion, Paris, 1979.
- Ill.), Chicago Linguistic Society. Regional Meeting (27th : 1991 : Chicago. Papers from the 27th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 1991 : Part one: The General Session. Dobrin, Lise M., Nichols, Lynn., Rodriguez, Rosa M. (1st ed.). ISBN 0914203371. OCLC 29310059.
External links
Fe'fe' language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
- Language Museum
- List of Nufi terms and their German translation
- Résurrection des langues minoritaires
- Alphabet camerounais
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