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'
Nufi, Fotouni, Bafang[1]
Fe'efe'e
Native toCameroon
RegionHaut-Nkam (Upper Nkam)
EthnicityBamileke Fe'efe'e
Native speakers
c. 140,000 (2005)[2]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3fmp
Glottologfefe1239[3]

Writing system


Fe'fe alphabet
Uppercase AⱭBCD EƏFGGh HIJKL MNŊOP SShTUɄ VWYZZh ʼ
Lowercase aɑbcd eəfggh hijkl mnŋop sshtuʉ vwyzzh ʼ


Phonology

Consonants
Labial Dental Palatal Postalveolar Velar Glottal
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

[5]

Vowels
+Back -Back
High ɨ u i
Low -Round a æ
+Round o e

[5]

gollark: Let's imagine you're buying a phone or something. Imagine there are two types of phone: the Orange oPhone XIIX+MAX and the Goggle Voxel 4. They might work exactly the same for you, unrealistically, but the Orange oPhone is more expensive. You were influenced a bit because of advertising, and because of that bought an oPhone over a Voxel.
gollark: Or a mildly worse but better-advertised one, because stuff rarely works exactly the same.
gollark: A more expensive product, for example.
gollark: Or you might be influenced to choose certain products over others because of advertising.
gollark: Probably not. But if you get exposed to enough advertising your views can be swayed a bit.

References
  1. OLAC resources in and about the Fe'fe' language. Open Language Archives.
  2. Fe'fe' at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Fe'fe'". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Patrick Renaud, Le Français au Cameroun in: Le Français hors de France sous la direction de A. Valdman, Editions Honoré Champion, Paris, 1979.
  5. 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.


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