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Mundabli language

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Bantoid language spoken in Cameroon

Mundabli
Ji
Native to	Cameroon
Native speakers	500 (2011)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Western Beboid (geographic) Mundabli–Buu Mundabli
Dialects	Mundabli Mufu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`boe`
Glottolog	`mund1328`
ELP	Mundabli-Mufu

Mundabli is aSouthern Bantoid language ofCameroon. It is traditionally classified as aWestern Beboid language, but that has not been demonstrated to be a valid family.

"Mundabli" is a village name. The language is spoken in the villages of Mundabli and Mufu. The neighboring village of Buu speaks adistinct language.

Phonology

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Mundabli Consonant Phonemes^[2]
		Labial	Dental	Palatal		Velar
		Labial	Dental	Plain	Labial	Velar
Nasal		m	n̪	ɲ		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless		t̪			k
Plosive	voiced	b	d̪			g
Affricate	voiceless		t̪s̪	tʃ		kp
Affricate	voiced		d̪z̪	dʒ		gb
Fricative		f	s̪	ʃ
Approximant			l̪	j	ɥ	w

Mundabli Vowel Phonemes^[3]
	Front		Central	Back
	Plain	Lowered	Central	Lowered	Plain
Close	i	ɪ	ɨ	ʊ	u
Close-mid	e		ə	o
Open-mid	ɛ		ə	ɔ
Open	a			ɒ

There are four tones; extra high, high, mid, and low.

References

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^Mundabli atEthnologue (18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
^Good, Jeff and Lovegren, Jesse and Mve, Jean Patrick and Tchiemouo, Nganguep Carine and Voll, Rebecca and Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. 2011. The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview. Africana Linguistica 17. 101–164.
^Good, Jeff and Lovegren, Jesse and Mve, Jean Patrick and Tchiemouo, Nganguep Carine and Voll, Rebecca and Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. 2011. The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview. Africana Linguistica 17. 101–164.

Blench, Roger, 2011.'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'.Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Good, Jeff, & Jesse Lovegren. 2009.'Reassessing Western Beboid'. Bantu III.
Good, Jeff, & Scott Farrar. 2008.'Western Beboid and African language classification'. LSA.
Voll, R.M. (2017).A grammar of Mundabli: a Bantoid (Yemne-Kimbi) language of Cameroon (Doctoral thesis). LOT (Leiden University).hdl:1887/56258.ISBN 9789460932540.

v t e Beboid languages
Eastern	Chung Bebe Kemezung Naki Saari Noni Fio Mbuk
Western	Mungbam Missong Mundabli Buu Mbu’ Lung Fang Koshin

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