Karang (language)
| Karang | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Chad , Cameroon | |
| speaker | 20,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
kzr |
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The Karang is an Mbum language spoken by around 20,000 people in Cameroon and more than a thousand people in Chad .
classification
The Karang is part of the group of Mbum languages , which in turn is part of the Adamaua languages of the Niger-Congo language family .
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| Capital letter | A. | B. | Ɓ | D. | Ɗ | E. | F. | G | GB | H | I. | K | KP | L. | M. | MB | MGB | N | ND | NZ | Ŋ | ŊG | O | Ɔ | P | R. | S. | T | U | V | VB | W. | Y | Ƴ | Z |
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| lowercase letters | a | b | ɓ | d | ɗ | e | f | G | gb | H | i | k | kp | l | m | mb | mgb | n | nd | nz | ŋ | ŋg | O | ɔ | p | r | s | t | u | v | vb | w | y | ƴ | z |
Nasalization is indicated by the help of the cedilla: a̧, ȩ, i̧, o̧, ɔ̧, u̧.
The only written note is the high note, and is indicated by the accent aigu: á, é, í, ó, ɔ́, ú; and they can be combined with nasalization: á̧, ȩ́, í̧, ó̧, ú̧.
The vowels are indexed by a following h.
literature
- David Ngang, Les pronoms en karang (ALCAM 352), 1999
- Virginia Ubels, Présyllabaires volumes 1 et 2 en langue Karang , 1998.
- Robert Ernst Ulfers, Narrative Genre Text Collection for Discourse Grammar Analysis in Karang , 1993.
- Robert Ernst Ulfers, A Practical Study of the Orthography of Compound Words in the Karang Language , 2000.
- Robert Ernst Ulfers, Dictionnaire karang - français , 2007.