West Banda language
West Banda is a minor Banda language, spoken by 10,000 or so people.. Dialects: Dakpa, Gbaga-Nord (Gbaga-2), Gbi, Vita, Wojo (Hodjo).
| West Banda | |
|---|---|
| Golo | |
| Native to | Central African Republic, South Sudan |
Native speakers | (7,500 cited 1982–1996)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bbp |
| Glottolog | west2458[2] |
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labialvelar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | kp | ʔ | |||
| voiced | ɟ | ɡ | ɡb | |||||||
| prenasalized | mb | ɱv | nd | nz | ɲɟ | ŋɡ | ŋmɡb | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | h | |||||
| voiced | v | z | ʒ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋm | ||||||
| Tap/Flap | ⱱ | ɾ | ||||||||
| Lateral | l | |||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Mid | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Close-mid | e | o | |
| Mid | ə | ||
| Open-mid | ɔ | ||
| Open | a |
Vowel tones in West Banda are rising /ǎ/, falling /â/, mid /ā/, low /à/, and high /á/.
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References
- West Banda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "West Central Banda". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Sampson, Douglas (1985). Studies in African Linguistics Supplement. pp. 269–274.
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