Mambai_language_(Cameroon)
Mangbai language
Mbum language spoken in Cameroon and Chad
Mangbai (Mamgbay, Mambai) is an Mbum language of northern Cameroon and southern Chad.
In Cameroon, Mambay is spoken along the Mayo-Kebi River near the Chadian border, in the Djaloumé region (northern end of Bibemi commune, Bénoué department), where there is a massif called Hosséré Mambay. It is also spoken in the extreme southeast of Figuil commune, Mayo-Louti department. In Cameroon and Chad, there is a total of about 2,500 speakers, many of whom also speak Mundang.
Consonants[2]
Vowels
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short | long | short | long | short | long | |
High | i | iː | u | uː | ||
Mid | e | eː | o | oː | ||
Low | a | aː |
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/e, o/ are heard as [ɛ, ɔ] when in closed syllables.
Glottalized
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Pharyngealized
- Mangbai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Anonby, Erik John (2008). "Phonology and Morphology of Mambay (Niger-Congo, Adamawa)". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-09-18.