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Feʼfeʼ language

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Grassfields language spoken in Cameroon

Feʼfeʼ
Nufi, Fotouni, Bafang^[1]
Fèʼéfěʼè
Native to	Cameroon
Region	Haut-Nkam (Upper Nkam)
Ethnicity	Bamileke Feʼefeʼe
Native speakers	c. 140,000 (2005)^[2]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Grassfields Eastern Grassfields Mbam-Nkam Bamileke Feʼfeʼ
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`fmp`
Glottolog	`fefe1239`

Communication in fe’efe’e translated to English and French

Feʼfeʼ or commonlyFeʼefeʼe, also known asNufi orBafang (Fe'fe':Nufi), is aBamileke language spoken inCameroon, around the town ofBafang. It was one of the four languages selected foroption at the Collège Libermann at Douala (along withDuala,Basaa andGhɔmálá').^[3]

Phonology

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Consonants

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Allophones are given in brackets.

Consonants^[4]
		Labial	Dental	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	(ɲ)	ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	(p)	t	t͡ʃ	k	ʔ
Plosive	voiced	b	d	d͡ʒ	ɡ
Fricative	voiceless	f	s	(ʃ)	x
Fricative	voiced	v	z	(ʒ)	(ɣ)
Approximant		(w)	(l)	(j)

Vowels

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Vowels^[4]
	Front	Mid	Back
High	i	ɨ^[a]	u
Mid	e	(ə)^[b]	o
Mid	(ɛ)	(ə)^[b]	(ɔ)
Low	a		ɑ

^Hyman (1972) uses/ɯ/, represented by⟨ʉ⟩.^[5]
^Hyman (1972) uses/ɤ/.^[5]

Tone

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Tone	Low	Raised-Low	Mid	High
Diacritic	à	ẚ	a	á
Example	[pʉà]	[pʉẚ]	[pʉa]	[pʉá]
Translation	bag	to bend over	to go crazy	two(2)

The language has a complex tone system, carefully described, along with other aspects of the phonology and morphology, inHyman (1972).^[4]

Writing system

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Feʼfeʼ alphabet^{[citation needed]}
Uppercase	A	Ɑ	B	C	D	E	Ə	F	G	Gh	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	Ŋ	O	P	S	Sh	T	U	Ʉ	V	W	Y	Z	Zh	ʼ
Lowercase	a	ɑ	b	c	d	e	ə	f	g	gh	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	ŋ	o	p	s	sh	t	u	ʉ	v	w	y	z	zh	ʼ

References

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^OLAC resources in and about the Feʼfeʼ language. Open Language Archives.
^Feʼfeʼ atEthnologue (18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
^Renaud, Patrick (1979). "Le Français au Cameroun". In Valdman, A. (ed.).Le Français hors de France. Paris: Editions Honoré Champion.
^^a ^b ^cHyman, Larry (1972).A Phonological Study of Feʼfeʼ-Bamileke(PDF) (PhD thesis). Los Angeles: University of California.
^^a ^bHyman 1972, p. 32.

External links

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Feʼfeʼ language test ofWikipedia atWikimedia Incubator

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