Kemezung
Kemezung language
Bantoid language spoken in Cameroon
Kemezung (Dumbo, Dumbu, Dzumbo, Kumaju) is a Southern Bantoid (Eastern Beboid) language of Cameroon. According to Ethnologue, it's 85% lexically similar to Bebe.[1]
Quick Facts Native to, Region ...
Kemezung | |
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Native to | Cameroon |
Region | Northwest Province, Donga-Mantung Division, Southwest corner of Ako Subdivision, Northwest of Nkambé, town of Dumbu and village of Kwei. |
Native speakers | 3,540 (2008)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | dmo |
Glottolog | keme1240 |
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Kemezung has 19 "unmodified" consonants.[2] Cox also claims Kemezung has labialized, palatalized, and prenasalized consonants but does not list all of them.[3]
More information Labial, Coronal ...
Labial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Labial-velar | Laryngeal | ||
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Plosive | Voiceless | /t/ | /k/ | /k͡p/ | |||
Voiced | /b/ | /d/ | /g/ | /g͡b/ | |||
Affricate | Voiceless | /t͡s/[lower-alpha 1] | |||||
Voiced | /d͡z/[lower-alpha 2] | ||||||
Fricative | /f/ | /s/[lower-alpha 3] | /h/ | ||||
Nasal | /m/ | /n/ | /ɲ/ | /ŋ/ | |||
Approximant | /l/[lower-alpha 4] | /j/[lower-alpha 5] | /w/ |
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Kemezung has 9 phonemic vowels.[4]
Kemezung also has 7 (or possibly 8) tones.[5] There are three level tones (high, mid, and low), three falling tones (high-low, mid-low, and long mid-low), and one or two rising tones (low-mid and possibly mid-high).
- Blench, Roger (2011). The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu (PDF). Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.
- Brye, Edward; Brye, Elizabeth (2004). "Intelligibility testing survey of Bebe and Kemezung and synthesis of sociolinguistic research of the Eastern Beboid cluster" (PDF). SIL. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-07.
- Cox, Bruce (2005). "Notes on the Phonology of Kemezung" (PDF). Yaoundé: SIL. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-11-06.
- Smoes, Christopher L. "A Sketch Grammar of the Kemezung language" (PDF). SIL. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-12-08.
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