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Ghɔmáláʼ orGhomala is a majorBamileke language spoken inCameroon, originally in the following departments of theWest region:

• Mifi,Koung-Khi andHauts-Plateaux: most of the three departments (except extreme south and except pockets in the north and west)
• Menoua: east of the department
• Bamboutos: a corner in the south

It is spoken by an estimated 2 million people in two main population groups.^{[citation needed]}

• The glottal stop/ʔ/ only occurs as word-final.
• Sounds[vlʃʒɣ] are alternative consonant sounds of/b͡vdt͡ʃd͡ʒɡ/.
• /td/, when occurring before close front-central vowel sounds /i ʉ/, can sound palatalized as[tʲdʲ].
• Sounds/pbtdk/, when preceding a/h/ sound, are realized as affricated[p͡ɸb͡βt͡θd͡ðk͡x].
• /ɡ/, when occurring before central vowel sounds/əɐ/, may sound affricated as[ɡ͡ɣ].
• A word-final/k/ sound, may be realized as uvular sounds[qχ].

• Sounds/ɐuɔ/ when occurring with a velar nasal/ŋ/, can be realized as nasalized vowel sounds[ɐ̃ũɔ̃].^[2]

Tones are marked as high[á], low[à], mid (unmarked)[a], rising[ǎ], or falling[â].

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