Mfumte

Mfumte is a member of Eastern Grassfields branch of the South Bantoid language family. It is spoken by about 24,000 people in the Northwest Region Cameroon, particularly in the north of the Nwa Subdivision of the Donga-Mantung Divison. There are also some speakers of Mfumte in the village of Inkiri in Taraba State in eastern Nigeria.

Mfumte is also known as Nfumte. Each of the villages where Mfumte is spoken has their own versions of the language. The Mfumte people also speak Ndaktup, Kwaja and Fum, which are either dialects of Mfumte, or closely-related languages.

Mfumte alphabet and pronunciation

Mfumte alphabet pronunciation

Download alphabet charts for Mfumte (Excel)
Details of the Mfumte alphabet (PDF) provided by Wolfram Siegel

Notes

Consonants followed by w are velarized, and those followed by y are palataized.

Sample sentences

Má løvə mèʼsɨ́ʼ tá kɔʼ tə́ hyá
One finger cannot tie a bundle of sticks
Bòshó tsɨ́tə̀ ngu’ tɔ́’, ndzɨ hwyì, pàto lábá mvǿ bywø̂ mɨ́ nghya’ zɨ̀
One finger cannot tie a bundle of sticks
Má vəwə má dəʼ wə́ wə̀ à wə̀ ʼsɨ́rɨ́ kyə̀ʼ
Your mother said to you that you should wash clothes

Sources:Mfumte Orthography Guide,A Sketch Grammar of the Central Mfumte Language

Sample videos

Links

Information about the Mfumte language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mfumte_language
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/nfu
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mfum1239

Grassfields languages

Aghem,Ambele,Awing,Baba,Babanki,Bambalang,Bamukumbit,Bamum,Bamunka,Bangolan,Feʼfeʼ,Fut,Ghomalaʼ,Kenswei Nsei,Kom,Kwaʼ,Limbum,Mfumte,Mmen,Ndemli,Ngaʼka,Ngiemboon,Ngomba,Ngombale,Nso,Oku,Vengo,Yamba,Yemba

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page created: 31.12.25. Last modified: 31.12.25

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