Mbe language
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| Mbe | |
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| M̀bè | |
| Pronunciation | Script error: No such module "IPA". |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Ogoja, Cross River State |
| Ethnicity | Mbube people |
Native speakers | 65,000 (2011)Template:Ethnologue25 does not exist |
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| ISO 639-3 | mfo |
| Glottolog | mbee1249 |
| ELP | Template:Endangered Languages Project |
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| People | Mbube[1] |
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| Language | M̀bè |
Mbe is a language spoken by the Mbube people of the Ogoja, Cross River State region of Nigeria, numbering about 65,000 people in 2011.[2] As the closest relative of the Ekoid family of the Southern Bantoid languages,[3] Mbe is fairly close to the Bantu languages. It is tonal and has a typical Niger–Congo noun-class system.
Phonology
Vowels
Vowels are Script error: No such module "IPA"..
Consonants
Mbe has a rather elaborate consonant inventory compared to the Ekoid languages, presumably due to contact from neighbouring Upper Cross River languages.
All Mbe consonants apart from the labial–velars (Script error: No such module "IPA".) and Script error: No such module "IPA". have labialised counterparts. (Script error: No such module "IPA". is presumably [ɥ].) In addition, the non-labialised peripheral stops (Script error: No such module "IPA".; palatalised Script error: No such module "IPA". would be Script error: No such module "IPA".) and the liquids (Script error: No such module "IPA".) have palatalised counterparts.
| m mʷ mʲ | n | ɲ ɲʷ | ŋ ŋʷ | |
| p pʷ pʲ | t tʷ | k kʷ̜ kʷ̹ kʲ | kp | |
| b bʷ bʲ | d dʷ | ɡ ɡʷ ɡʲ | ɡb | |
| ts tsʷ | tʃ tʃʷ | |||
| dz dzʷ | dʒ dʒʷ | |||
| f fʷ | s sʷ | ʃ ʃʷ | ||
| r rʷ lʲ | ||||
| l lʷ lʲ | j jʷ | w |
There are a few consonants that only occur in ideophones, such as Script error: No such module "IPA"..
An interesting additional contrast is between fortis and lenis Script error: No such module "IPA".. Fortis (long?) Script error: No such module "IPA". half-rounds a following vowel such as Script error: No such module "IPA"., whereas lenis Script error: No such module "IPA". does not. This distinction may be being lost. (Blench)
Tone
Tones are high, low, rising, falling and a downstep; rising and falling may be tone sequences.
References
- Roger Blench, 'Ekoid' (with Mbe)
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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External links
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