Ntcham language

Ntcham
	Basari
Native to	Togo, Ghana
Ethnicity	Gurma
Native speakers	280,000 (2004–2012)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Gur Northern Oti–Volta Gurma Ntcham; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin (Basari alphabet); Basari Braille
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; bud – Ntcham; aks – Akaselem
Glottolog	ntch1241[2]

Ntcham, or Basari, is a language of the Gurma people in Togo and Ghana. Akaselem (Tchamba) is frequently listed as a separate language.

Writing System

Ntcham Alphabet
Majuscules	A	B	C	D	EE	F	G	GB	I	J	K	KP	L
Minuscules	a	b	c	d	ee	f	g	gb	i	j	k	kp	l

Majuscules	M	N	NY	Ŋ	ŊM	OO	Ɔ	P	S	T	U	W	Y
Minuscules	m	n	ny	ŋ	ŋm	oo	ɔ	p	s	t	u	w	y

Long vowels are indicated by doubling the letter ‹aa, ii, ɔɔ, uu› and two vowels are always long ‹ee, oo›. The tones are represented by acute accents for high tone and grave accents for low tone, on the vowels and the consonants m, n, b, l : ‹ḿ, ń, b́, ĺ›, ‹m̀, ǹ, b̀, l̀›.

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References

Ntcham at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Akaselem at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gurma A". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] Ntcham at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Akaselem at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gurma A". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.