Baba language
Baba | |
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Papiak | |
Supapyak’ | |
Region | Cameroon |
Ethnicity | Papiak |
Native speakers | 25,000 (2005)[1] |
Language family | Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bbw |
Glottolog | baba1264 |
The Baba language, Supapyak’, is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.
Phonology
Baba has a (C)V(C) syllable structure, with syllabic nasals. The only phonemes that can occur in the final position are /p, m, ŋ, ʔ, r/ and /x/. There are no vowel-initial roots but they can form morphemes.[2]
Labial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Labial-velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | k͡p | ʔ | |
voiced | ɡ͡b | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ŋ͡m | ||
Trill | r | ||||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | x | ||
voiced | v | ɣ | |||||
Approximant | l | j | |||||
Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ |
Between nasals and vowels, voiceless stops become voiced; a noticeable exception is /ɡ͡b/, which is its own separate phoneme. There are also some additional phonological processes that create the allophones of [r~d͡z], [l~d], [j~d͡ʒ], and [ɣ~g~w].[2]
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | ɨ | u |
Mid | e | ə | o |
Open | a |
Vowels are also punctuated with contrastive high and low tones.[2]
References
- ^ Baba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b c d e Pepandze, Nashipu Julius (2008-06-01). "A generative account of consonant alternations in Baba 1". Studies in African Linguistics. 37 (1): 94–99. doi:10.32473/sal.v37i1.107300. ISSN 2154-428X.
External links
- ELAR archive of Documentation of Baba'1 (Baba)
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