Fang language (Cameroon)
{{Short description|African language native to Cameroon}}
{{distinguish|text = the Bantu Fang language of Equatorial Guinea}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Fang
|nativename=
|states=Cameroon
|region=
|speakers=4,000
|date=2011
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=Atlantic–Congo
|fam3=Benue–Congo
|fam4=Southern Bantoid
|fam5=Western Beboid (geographic)
|iso3=fak
|glotto=fang1248
|glottorefname=Fang (Cameroon)
}}
Fang is a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon.
"Fang" is the name of the village the language is spoken in.
Phonology
| class="wikitable"
|+ ! colspan="2" | |
| colspan="2" |Nasal
|m |ɱ |n̪ |ɲ |ŋ |
|---|
| rowspan="2" |Plosive
|p | |t̪ | |k |
| voiced
|b | |d̪ | |g |
| rowspan="2" |Affricate
| | |t̪s̪ |tʃ |kp |
| voiced
| | | |dʒ |gb |
| rowspan="2" |Fricative
| |f |s̪ | | |
| voiced
| |v | |ʒ | |
| colspan="2" |Approximant
| | |l̪ |j |w |
| class="wikitable"
|+ ! ! colspan="2" |Front ! rowspan="2" |Central ! colspan="2" |Back |
| !Less rounded
!Plain !Plain |
|---|
| Close
|i̜ |i | |u̜ |u |
| Close-mid
| colspan="2" |e | rowspan="2" |ə | colspan="2" |o |
| Open-mid
| colspan="2" |ɛ | colspan="2" |ɔ |
| Open
| colspan="2" | |a | colspan="2" | |
There are three tones; high, mid, and low.
References
{{Reflist}}
- Blench, Roger, 2011. [http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/Bantoid/General/Blench%20Bantu%20IV%20Berlin%20Bantoid%202011.pdf 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu']. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.
- Good, Jeff, & Jesse Lovegren. 2009. [http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcgood/goodlovegren-Bantu3.pdf 'Reassessing Western Beboid']. Bantu III.
- Good, Jeff, & Scott Farrar. 2008. [http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcgood/farrargood-WesternBeboidNCs.pdf 'Western Beboid and African language classification']. LSA.
- https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcgood/Mve-2013-Fang.pdf
{{Beboid languages}}
Category:Languages of Cameroon
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