Ghomalaʼ language
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Script error: No such module "Lang". or Ghomala is a major Bamileke language spoken in Cameroon, originally in the following departments of the West region:
- Mifi, Koung-Khi and Hauts-Plateaux: most of the three departments (except extreme south and except pockets in the north and west)
- Menoua: east of the department
- Bamboutos: a corner in the south
It is spoken by an estimated 2 million people in two main population groups.[citation needed]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | p͡f | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||
| voiced | b͡v | d͡z | d͡ʒ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | (ʃ) | h | |
| voiced | (v) | (ʒ) | (ɣ) | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Approximant | lateral | (l) | ||||
| central | w | j | ||||
| centralized | ɥ̈ | |||||
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- Script error: No such module "IPA"., when occurring before close front-central vowel sounds /i ʉ/, can sound palatalized as Script error: No such module "IPA"..
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- A word-final Script error: No such module "IPA". sound, may be realized as uvular sounds Script error: No such module "IPA"..
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | ʉ | u |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| ɛ | ɐ | ɔ | |
| Low | a |
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Tone
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References
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- ^ Ghomala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Nissim, Gabriel M. (1981). Le Bamileke-Ghomálá' (parler de Bandjoun, Cameroun): phonologie - morphologie nominale; comparaison avec des parlers voisins. Langues et civilisations à tradition orale. Paris: SELAF. ISBN 978-2-85297-104-2.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Nissim, Gabriel M. (1981). Le Bamileke-Ghomálá' (Parler de Bandjoun, Cameroun). Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Sciéntifique.
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