Gbeya | |
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Native to | Central African Republic |
Native speakers | (ca. 250,000 cited 1996–2005) [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:
gbp – Gbaya-Bossangoa
sqm – Suma
dek – Dek (duplicate of Suma) |
Glottolog |
gbey1244
dekk1240 |
Gbeya (Gbɛ́yá, Gbaya-Bossangoa) is a Gbaya language of the Central African Republic. Ethnologue reports it may be mutually intelligible with Bozom. [2]
Suma (Súmā) is a language variety closely related to Gbeya. [3]
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labialvelar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | k͡p | ʔ | ||
voiced | b | d | ɡ | ɡ͡b | ||||
prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | ᵑᵐɡ͡b | ||||
ingressive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||||
Nasal | preglottalized | ˀm | ˀn | |||||
plain | m | n | ŋ | ŋ͡m | ||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | h | ||||
voiced | v | z | ||||||
Lateral | l | |||||||
Tap/Flap | ⱱ | ɾ | ||||||
Approximant | j | w |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Close-mid | e | o | |
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
Open | a |