Mundabli language

Mundabli
Mundabli
Ji
Native to	Cameroon
Native speakers	500 (2011)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Western Beboid (geographic) Mundabli–Buu Mundabli; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Mundabli; Mufu;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	boe
Glottolog	mund1328
ELP	Mundabli-Mufu

Mundabli is a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. It is traditionally classified as a Western Beboid language, but that has not been demonstrated to be a valid family.

"Mundabli" is a village name. The language is spoken in the villages of Mundabli and Mufu. The neighboring village of Buu speaks a distinct language.

Phonology

Mundabli Consonant Phonemes^[2]
		Labial	Dental	Palatal		Velar
		Labial	Dental	Plain	Labial	Velar
Nasal		m	n̪	ɲ		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless		t̪			k
Plosive	voiced	b	d̪			g
Affricate	voiceless		t̪s̪	tʃ		kp
Affricate	voiced		d̪z̪	dʒ		gb
Fricative		f	s̪	ʃ
Approximant			l̪	j	ɥ	w

Mundabli Vowel Phonemes^[3]
	Front		Central	Back
	Plain	Lowered	Central	Lowered	Plain
Close	i	ɪ	ɨ	ʊ	u
Close-mid	e		ə	o
Open-mid	ɛ		ə	ɔ
Open	a			ɒ

There are four tones; extra high, high, mid, and low.

References

^ Mundabli at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Good, Jeff and Lovegren, Jesse and Mve, Jean Patrick and Tchiemouo, Nganguep Carine and Voll, Rebecca and Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. 2011. The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview. Africana Linguistica 17. 101–164.
^ Good, Jeff and Lovegren, Jesse and Mve, Jean Patrick and Tchiemouo, Nganguep Carine and Voll, Rebecca and Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. 2011. The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview. Africana Linguistica 17. 101–164.

Blench, Roger, 2011. 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Good, Jeff, & Jesse Lovegren. 2009. 'Reassessing Western Beboid'. Bantu III.
Good, Jeff, & Scott Farrar. 2008. 'Western Beboid and African language classification'. LSA.
Voll, R.M. (2017). A grammar of Mundabli: a Bantoid (Yemne-Kimbi) language of Cameroon (Doctoral thesis). LOT (Leiden University). hdl:1887/56258. ISBN 9789460932540.

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[e18-1] Mundabli at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Good, Jeff and Lovegren, Jesse and Mve, Jean Patrick and Tchiemouo, Nganguep Carine and Voll, Rebecca and Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. 2011. The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview. Africana Linguistica 17. 101–164.

[3] Good, Jeff and Lovegren, Jesse and Mve, Jean Patrick and Tchiemouo, Nganguep Carine and Voll, Rebecca and Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. 2011. The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview. Africana Linguistica 17. 101–164.

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