Kemezung has 19 "unmodified" consonants.[2] Cox also claims Kemezung has labialized, palatalized, and prenasalized consonants but does not list all of them.[3]
^Cox uses ⟨ɨ⟩, which normally represents the close central unrounded vowel /ɨ/.
^Cox uses ⟨ə⟩, which normally represents the mid central unrounded vowel /ə/.
Toneedit
Kemezung also has 7 (or possibly 8) tones.[5] There are three level tones (high, mid, and low), three falling tones (high-low, mid-low, and long mid-low), and one or two rising tones (low-mid and possibly mid-high).
Notesedit
^ abKemezung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
kemezung, language, kemezung, dumbo, dumbu, dzumbo, kumaju, southern, bantoid, eastern, beboid, language, cameroon, according, ethnologue, lexically, similar, bebe, kemezungnative, tocameroonregionnorthwest, province, donga, mantung, division, southwest, corne. Kemezung Dumbo Dumbu Dzumbo Kumaju is a Southern Bantoid Eastern Beboid language of Cameroon According to Ethnologue it s 85 lexically similar to Bebe 1 KemezungNative toCameroonRegionNorthwest Province Donga Mantung Division Southwest corner of Ako Subdivision Northwest of Nkambe town of Dumbu and village of Kwei Native speakers3 540 2008 1 Language familyNiger Congo Atlantic CongoBenue CongoSouthern BantoidEastern BeboidKemezungLanguage codesISO 639 3 a href https iso639 3 sil org code dmo class extiw title iso639 3 dmo dmo a Glottologkeme1240 Contents 1 Consonants 2 Vowels 3 Tone 4 Notes 5 ReferencesConsonants editKemezung has 19 unmodified consonants 2 Cox also claims Kemezung has labialized palatalized and prenasalized consonants but does not list all of them 3 Labial Coronal Palatal Velar Labial velar LaryngealPlosive Voiceless t k k p Voiced b d g g b Affricate Voiceless t s a Voiced d z b Fricative f s c h Nasal m n ɲ ŋ Approximant l d j e w t s becomes t ʃ before i d z becomes d ʒ before i s becomes ʃ before i It becomes s or ɾ between vowels root medially l optionally becomes d in many words before i root medially j optionally becomes ʒ before i root medially Vowels editKemezung has 9 phonemic vowels 4 Front Central BackClose i u Close mid e ɘ a o Open mid ɛ ɜ b ɔ Open a Cox uses ɨ which normally represents the close central unrounded vowel ɨ Cox uses e which normally represents the mid central unrounded vowel e Tone editKemezung also has 7 or possibly 8 tones 5 There are three level tones high mid and low three falling tones high low mid low and long mid low and one or two rising tones low mid and possibly mid high Notes edit a b Kemezung at Ethnologue 18th ed 2015 subscription required Cox 2005 2 Cox 2005 2 4 Cox 2005 5 Cox 2005 7 8 References editBlench Roger 2011 The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu PDF Bantu IV Humboldt University Berlin Brye Edward Brye Elizabeth 2004 Intelligibility testing survey of Bebe and Kemezung and synthesis of sociolinguistic research of the Eastern Beboid cluster PDF SIL Archived from the original PDF on 2014 09 07 Cox Bruce 2005 Notes on the Phonology of Kemezung PDF Yaounde SIL Archived from the original PDF on 2023 11 06 Smoes Christopher L A Sketch Grammar of the Kemezung language PDF SIL Archived from the original PDF on 2023 12 08 nbsp This article about Southern Bantoid languages is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Kemezung language amp oldid 1191358490, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
