Ngaʼka | |
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Bali | |
Mungaʼka | |
Native to | Cameroon |
Region | Bali Nyonga |
Ethnicity | Chamba |
Native speakers | (50,000 cited 1982) [1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
mhk |
Glottolog |
mung1266 |
The Ngaʼka language, or Mungaʼka, also known as Bali, is a Grassfields language spoken by the people of Bali Nyonga in Cameroon. They are the descendants of the Chamba of northern Nigeria. [2]
The sounds of Munga'ka are as follows: [3]
Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
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Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | ɡ | ʔ | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||||||
Fricative | f | v | s | ɣ | |||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ʒ | ||||||||
Approximant | w | j | |||||||||
Lateral approximant | l |
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | ʉ | u |
High-Mid | ə | o | |
Low-Mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
Low | a |