Maɗa language
Maɗa is a Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon. It has 17,000 speakers.
| Maɗa | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Cameroon |
| Region | Far North Region, Cameroon |
Native speakers | (17,000 cited 1982)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mxu |
| Glottolog | mada1293 |
Vowels
Maɗa has seven vowels.
| Front | Middle | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Middle | e ø | ə | o |
| Low | a |
Consonants
Maɗa has 25 consonants in total, including implosives, lateral fricatives, and prenasalized stops.
| Labial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Velar | Glottal | Rounded Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | Tenuis | p | t | k | kʷ | ||||
| Voiced | b | d | g | ɡʷ | |||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||||||
| Prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑg | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||||
| Fricative | Tenuis | f | s | h | hʷ | ||||
| Voiced | v | z | |||||||
| Lateral fricative | Tenuis | ɬ | |||||||
| Voiced | ɮ | ||||||||
| Affricate | Tenuis | ts | |||||||
| Voiced | dz | ||||||||
| Prenasalized | ⁿdz | ||||||||
| Rhotic | r | ||||||||
| Approximate | w | j | |||||||
| Lateral approximate | l | ||||||||
Notes
- Maɗa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
References
- Daniel Barreteau & André Brunet. 2000. Dictionnaire mada. Berlin: Reimer.
- http://pbase.phon.chass.ncsu.edu/language/322
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