Mbembe language
Mbembe is a Cross River language of Nigeria. Odut, a divergent variety spoken in a village far South of the rest of Mbembe, had 20 speakers in 1980 and may be extinct.[5]
| Mbembe | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
Native speakers | (100,000 cited 1982)[2] |
Niger–Congo
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mfn – inclusive codeIndividual code: oda – Odut village[3] |
| Glottolog | cros1244[4] |
Orthography
The Mbembe alphabet has 33 letters, with 25 consonants and eight vowels.[6]
| Letters (uppercase) | A | Ɑ | B | Ch | D | E | Ɛ | F | G | Gb | H | I | J | K | Kp | L | M | N | Ny | Ŋ | O | Ɔ | P | R | S | Sh | T | U | V | W | Y | Z | Zh |
| Letters (lowercase) | a | α | b | ch | d | e | ɛ | f | g | gb | h | i | j | k | kp | l | m | n | ny | ŋ | o | ɔ | p | r | s | sh | t | u | v | w | y | z | zh |
| IPA | /a/ | /ɑ/ | /b/ | /tʃ/ | /d/ | /e/ | /ɛ/ | /f/ | /ɡ/ | /ɡb/ | /h/ | /i/ | /dʒ/ | /k/ | /kp/ | /l/ | /m/ | /n/ | /ɲ/ | /ŋ/ | /o/ | /ɔ/ | /p/ | /ɾ/ | /s/ | /ʃ/ | /t/ | /u/ | /v/ | /w/ | /j/ | /z/ | /ʒ/ |
References
- Blench (2013) An Atlas of Nigerian Languages
- Mbembe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Odut village[1] at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - Blench (2013) An Atlas of Nigerian Languages
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Cross River Mbembe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- "Odut". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
- Julius A. Eyoh; Echebi Emmanuel Sandamu (July 2009). "Mbembe Orthography Guide" (PDF). silcam.org. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
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