Ngwe language
Ngwe (Ŋwɛh, Nweh) is a Grassfields language spoken predominately in Lebialem, Cameroon. As of 2001, Ngwe had 73,200 speakers, which was an increase from the numbers of previous censuses. It is part of the Bamileke dialect continuum, and its closest relatives are Yemba and Ngiemboon.
Ngwe | |
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Native to | Cameroon |
Native speakers | 73,000 (2001)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nwe |
Glottolog | ngwe1238 [2] |
Phonology
Vowels
It has at least thirteen vowels, /i y e ɛ æ ɐ ɑ ɔ o u ɯ ɤ ʌ/.[3] /ɤ ʌ/ are centralised.[3] /y/ sounds somewhat like [ø] or [œ] and has a tongue position similar to that of /ɑ/, but with the jaw raised and the lips very close together.[3]
gollark: I've been deploying bees into apiospace, as they say.
gollark: Greetings.
gollark: When they do slightly understand them, they do wrong things too.
gollark: Just as they do not understand many things.
gollark: Clearly Lyricly doesn't understand optics.
References
- Ngwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngwe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Ladefoged, Peter. A Phonetic Study of West African Languages: An Auditory-instrumental Survey. Cambridge University Press, 1968, pp. 33–36.
External links
- Ayotte, Michael & Ayotte, Charlene. 2002. "Sociolinguistic Language Survey of Ngwe." SIL International
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