Mangbei_language
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.