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
Native to	Cameroon
Native speakers	500 (2011)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid ? Western Beboid Mundabli
Dialects	Mundabli Bu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	boe
Glottolog	mund1328[2]

"Mundabli" is a village name. The language is spoken in the villages of Mundabli, Mufu, and Bu. The variety in Bu may be distinct enough to be considered a separate language.

Phonology

Mundabli Consonant Phonemes[3]

		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[4]

	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)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mundabli". 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.
4. 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)