bena, language, confused, with, adamawa, bena, bantu, language, spoken, bena, people, iringa, region, tanzania, benaekibenanative, totanzaniaethnicitybenanative, speakers590, 2009, language, familyniger, congo, atlantic, congobenue, congobantoidbantunortheast,. Not to be confused with Bena language Adamawa Bena is a Bantu language spoken by the Bena people of the Iringa region of Tanzania BenaEkibenaNative toTanzaniaEthnicityBenaNative speakers590 000 2009 1 Language familyNiger Congo Atlantic CongoBenue CongoBantoidBantuNortheast BantuBena Kinga G60 BenaDialectsBena BenamangaLanguage codesISO 639 3Variously a href https iso639 3 sil org code bez class extiw title iso639 3 bez bez a Bena a href https iso639 3 sil org code egm class extiw title iso639 3 egm egm a Kidugala a href https iso639 3 sil org code egm class extiw title iso639 3 egm egm a Lupembe a href https iso639 3 sil org code egm class extiw title iso639 3 egm egm a BenemangaGlottologbena1262Guthrie codeG 63 2 Linguasphere99 AUS ub incl varieties 99 AUS uba ubg Contents 1 Phonology 1 1 Consonants 1 2 Vowels 2 ReferencesPhonology editConsonants edit Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar GlottalNasal m n ɲ ŋPlosive voiceless p t kvoiced b d ɡprenasal ᵐb ⁿd ᵑɡAffricate tsFricative voiceless f s hvoiced vprenasal ⁿsApproximant l j wVoiceless sounds almost always occur as aspirated stops pʰ tʰ kʰ v can be realized as ʋ intervocalically ɖ can occur as an allophone of d before long non high vowels x can occur as an allophone of k h in the Maswamu dialect cc tʃ can occur as allophones of ts in the Twangabita dialect ⁿz can occur as an allophone of ⁿs ɟ can occur as an allophone of j in the Maswamu dialect b ʋ can occur as allophones of w among some speakers Prenasalised stops may be devoiced when occurring word finally ex ᵐb ᵐb Vowels edit Front Central BackHigh i iː u uːMid ɛ eː o oːLow a aː i u before non rounded vowels are recognized as glides j w 3 References edit Bena at Ethnologue 26th ed 2023 nbsp Kidugala at Ethnologue 26th ed 2023 nbsp Lupembe at Ethnologue 26th ed 2023 nbsp Benemanga at Ethnologue 26th ed 2023 nbsp Jouni Filip Maho 2009 New Updated Guthrie List Online Morrison 2011 Morrison Michelle Elizabeth 2011 A Reference Grammar of Bena Doctor of Philosophy thesis Rice University hdl 1911 70359 nbsp This Bantu language related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bena language amp oldid 1183651502, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
