Bafanji
| Bafanji (Nchufie) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Cameroon | |
| speaker | 17,000 (2008) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
bfj |
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Bafanji is a language spoken in the northwest region of Cameroon .
It is estimated that there are only 17,000 speakers of the language left. The language has a rich system of tonal morphology, including the reduplication of included adjectives.
Phonemes
| labial | Alveolar |
Post alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| stop | plain | p | t | t͡ʃ | c͡ç | k |
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | t͡ʃʰ | c͡çʰ | kʰ | |
| prenasalized | m b | n d | n d͡ʒ | ɲ ɟ | ŋ ɡ | |
| fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | ç | |
| voiced | z | ɣ | ||||
| Approximant | central | j | w | |||
| lateral | l | ʎ | ||||
literature
- Daniel Silverman: Optional, conditional, and obligatory prenasalization in Bafanji . In: Journal of West African Languages . 25, 1995, pp. 57-62.
Web links
- Paul Lewis (Ed.): Ethnologue: Languages of the World , 16th Edition, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, Texas 2009 (accessed July 27, 2011).
- Map of Bafanji language from the LL-Map Project
- Information on Bafanji language from the MultiTree Project