Ngiemboon language

The Ngiemboon (N'Jhamboon) language, Ngyɛmbɔɔŋ, is one of a dozen Bamileke languages spoken in Cameroon.

Ngiemboon
Ngyɛmbɔɔŋ
Native toCameroon
RegionProvince de l'Ouest, Bamboutos
Native speakers
250,000 BOCOWI (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3nnh
Glottologngie1241[2]

Dialects are Batcham (Basham), Balatchi (Balaki) and Bamoungong (Bamongoun).

Phonology

The consonants are:

Labial Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive p b t d k g
Affricate pf ts
Fricative f v s z
Approximant w j ɰ
Labial Approximant ɥ

The vowels are /a/, /ɔ/, /ε/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/.

Ngiemboon is a tonal language, and uses the high tone /˦/, the low tone /˨/, the falling tone /˥˩/, and the rising tone /˩˥/.[3]

gollark: Same thing.
gollark: SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE < kebab-case < PascalCase < camelCase < snake_case < phpcase
gollark: `pascalCamelsnake_kebab-case`
gollark: That seems more like "iterate from 1 to n" than "iterate through list with index".
gollark: Why not `for i, arg in enumerate(arg)` like Python?

References

  1. Ngiemboon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngiemboon". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. "PHOIBLE Online -". phoible.org. Retrieved 2019-02-15.


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