Mpade language
Mpadə | |
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Native to | Cameroon, Chad |
Region | Far North Province, Cameroon; west Chad |
Native speakers | 16,000 in Cameroon (2004)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
mpi |
Glottolog |
mpad1242 (Mpade)[2]ngal1301 (Ngala)[3] |
Mpadə is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects are Bodo, Digam, Mpade (Makari), Shoe (Shewe), and Woulki.[4]
The language is sometimes known as Makari, after one of the towns where it is spoken. Ngala further west (as described by Barth) once spoke a dialect similar to Makari, but it was moribund by the 1920s, the people having shifted to Kanuri.
Phonology
Consonants
Mpade has the following consonants.[5]
Labial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
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Plain | Labialized | ||||||
Stops and affricates |
Voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | kʷ | |
Voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ɡʷ | ||
Ejective | tsʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | |||
Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||||
Prenasalized | mb | nd | ŋɡ | ||||
Fricatives | Voiceless | f | s | ʃ | h | ||
Voiced | z | ||||||
Nasals | m | n | |||||
Lateral | l | ||||||
Trill | r | ||||||
Semivowels | j | w |
Vowels
Mpade has the following vowels.[5]
front | back unrounded | back rounded | |
---|---|---|---|
High | i | h | u |
Non-High | e | ɡ | o |
Notes
- ↑ Mpadə at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mpade". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ngala of Lake Chad". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Frawley, William J., ed. (2003). "Mpade". International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Volume 1. Oxford University Press. p. 238.
- 1 2 Allison 2006.
References
- Sean Allison. 2006. "Alphabet et orthographe de Kotoko de Makary (mpadɨ)," manuscript. Available on-line
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