Ndoro language
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Ndoola (Ndoro) or Njoyamɛ in Cameroon[2] is a Bantoid language of Nigeria, with several thousand speakers in Cameroon. It is either among or related to the Mambiloid languages.
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| oral | labialised | |||||
| Plosive | p b | t d | tʃ dʒ | k g | kʷ gʷ | ʔ |
| Prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ⁿdʒ | ᵑg | ᵑgʷ | |
| Fricative | f v | s z | ʃ | h | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ŋʷ | |
| Approximant | w | l, r | ʎ, j | |||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | ɨ | u uː |
| Mid-high | e eː | ə | o oː |
| Mid-low | ɛ ɛː | ɔ | |
| Low | a aː |
Ndoro also has five tones;[3] high, mid, low, falling, and rising.
Morphology
Ndoola nouns can have both prefixes and suffixes attached to them, although not for all nouns. Most nouns do not mark the plural, and the ones that do most commonly indicate plurality using a suffix.[3]
Pronouns
| sing. | plur. | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | nímə̀ | nájā |
| 2nd | níbâ | nɨnjīnā |
| 3rd | wūnī | nɛ́bū |
References
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- ^ Ndoola at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
- ^ a b c d e Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Blench, Roger; Connell, Bruce (2014). A preliminary assessment of Ndoola (Ndoro) (PDF). Archived from the original on 2025-09-11.
