Medumba
| Medumba (Bagangte, Bangangte) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Cameroon ( Ndé in the Western Province ) | |
| speaker | 210,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -2 |
bai |
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| ISO 639-3 |
byv |
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| ISO 639 -5 |
bai |
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The Medumba is one of the eleven Bamileke bantoid languages . Medumba is spoken mainly in the Département of Ndé with the most important settlements Bangangté and Tonga .
The Medumba is of Egyptian origin based on the Bamileke . Its name comes from Medu MBa, a language derived from the ancient Egyptian language Medu Neter, and translated means "divine language". The population is the result of multiple waves of immigration from ancient Egypt.
The standard dialect is the batongtou.
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The Medumba alphabet comprises 33 letters, including 23 consonants and 10 vowels, as well as five tones, including three punctual and two melodic.
alphabet
The following letters make up the Medumba alphabet:
a, α, b, c, d, ә, e, ɛ, f, g, gh, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, ŋ, o, ɔ, s, sh, t, ts, u, ʉ, v, w, ny, y, z, '.
Sounds
In the medumba, medumba that are placed on certain letters are not accents, but tones. They indicate the tone of how the relative pitch of the voice is when pronouncing a syllable. There are five of them: three punctual tones and two melodic tones.