Northwest Gbaya is a Gbaya language spoken across a broad expanse of Cameroon and the Central African Republic. The principal variety is Kara (Kàrà, Gbaya Kara), a name shared with several neighboring languages; Lay (Làì) is restricted to a small area north of Mbodomo, with a third between it and Toongo that is not named in Moñino (2010), but is influenced by the Gbaya languages to the south.
/w/ is heard as nasalized [w̃] when preceding nasal vowels.[3]
Writing systemedit
Paulette Roulon-Doko uses a uses a phonetic transcription in her works on Northwest Gbaya. The nasal vowels are noted there with the tilde under the vowel letter ⟨a̰, ɛ̰, ḭ, ɔ̰, ṵ⟩.
In Cameroon, an alphabet based on the General Alphabet of Cameroonian Languages is used, notably in the translation of the Bible into Gbaya published by the Alliance biblique du Cameroun. The nasal vowels are noted there with the cedilla under the vowel letter ⟨a̧, ɛ̧, i̧, ɔ̧, u̧⟩.
Northwest Gbaya alphabet (Cameroon)
a
b
ɓ
d
ɗ
e
ɛ
f
g
gb
h
i
k
kp
l
m
mb
n
nd
ng
ngb
ny
ŋ
nm
p
ɔ
p
r
s
t
u
v
w
y
z
’
Referencesedit
^Northwest Gbaya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ abMoñino, Yves (1995). Gbaya du Nord (Kara, Yaayuwee). Le proto-Gbaya : essai de linguistique comparative historique sur vingt-et-une langes de'Afrique centrale: Paris : Peeters. p. 58.
Roulon-Doko, Paulette (2008). Dictionnaire gbaya-français. République centrafricaine, suivi d'un dictionnaire des noms propres et d'un index français-gbaya. Paris: Karthala. ISBN978-2-84586-976-9.
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