ghomala, language, ghɔmálá, bamileke, banjun, bamiléké, bandjoun, major, bamileke, language, cameroon, ghomalaghɔmálá, regioncameroonethnicitybamilekenative, speakers350, 2005, language, familyniger, congo, atlantic, congovolta, congobenue, congobantoidsouther. Ghɔmala or Bamileke Banjun Bamileke Bandjoun is a major Bamileke language of Cameroon GhomalaGhɔmala RegionCameroonEthnicityBamilekeNative speakers350 000 2005 1 Language familyNiger Congo Atlantic CongoVolta CongoBenue CongoBantoidSouthern BantoidGrassfieldsEastern GrassfieldsMbam NkamBamilekeGhomalaLanguage codesISO 639 3 a href https iso639 3 sil org code bbj class extiw title iso639 3 bbj bbj a Glottologghom1247Alphabet of the Ghomala language It is spoken by an estimated 1 1 million people in two main population groups 2 Contents 1 Phonology 1 1 Consonants 1 2 Vowels 1 3 Tone 2 ReferencesPhonology EditConsonants Edit Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar GlottalPlosive voiceless p t k ʔvoiced b d ɡAffricate voiceless p f t s t ʃvoiced b v d z d ʒFricative voiceless f s ʃ hvoiced v ʒ ɣ Nasal m n ŋApproximant lateral l central w jcentralized ɥ The glottal stop ʔ only occurs as word final Sounds v l ʃ ʒ ɣ are alternative consonant sounds of b v d t ʃ d ʒ ɡ t d when occurring before close front central vowel sounds i ʉ can sound palatalized as tʲ dʲ Sounds p b t d k when preceding a h sound are realized as affricated p ɸ b b t 8 d d k x ɡ when occurring before central vowel sounds e ɐ may sound affricated as ɡ ɣ A word final k sound may be realized as uvular sounds q x Vowels Edit Front Central BackHigh i ʉ uMid e e oɛ ɐ ɔLow aSounds ɐ u ɔ when occurring with a velar nasal ŋ can be realized as nasalized vowel sounds ɐ ũ ɔ 3 Tone Edit Tones are marked as high a low a central unmarked a rising ǎ or falling a References Edit Ghomala at Ethnologue 18th ed 2015 subscription required Ghomala Language Joshua Project joshuaproject net Retrieved 2020 10 27 Nissim Gabriel M 1981 Le Bamileke Ghomala Parler de Bandjoun Cameroun Paris Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Ghomala language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator This article about a language spoken in Cameroon is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte This article about Grassfields Bantu languages is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ghomala 27 language amp oldid 1048423291, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
