Ngaʼka language
{{Short description|Grassfields language spoken in Cameroon}}
{{Other uses|Bali language (disambiguation){{!}}Bali language}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Ngaʼka
|nativename=Mungaʼka
|altname=Bali
|region=Bali Nyonga
|states=Cameroon
|ethnicity= Chamba
|speakers={{sigfig|50100|2}}
|date=1982
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=Atlantic–Congo
|fam3=Volta-Congo
|fam4=Benue–Congo
|fam5=Bantoid
|fam6=Southern Bantoid
|fam7=Grassfields
|fam8=Eastern Grassfields
|fam9=Mbam-Nkam
|fam10=Nun
|iso3=mhk
|glotto=mung1266
|glottorefname=Mungaka
|dia1=Bati (Ti)
|dia2=Bali (Li)
|dia3=Bandeng (Nde)
}}
The Ngaʼka language, or Mungaʼka, also known as Bali, is a Grassfields language spoken by the people of Bali Nyonga in Cameroon. They are the descendants of the Chamba of northern Nigeria.{{cite web |url=http://www.bca-usa.org/bca/balinyonga.html |title=The Chamba Migration and the Origin of Bali Nyonga |access-date=2009-02-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629060158/http://www.bca-usa.org/bca/balinyonga.html |archive-date=2009-06-29 }}
Phonology
= Consonant inventory =
| class="wikitable IPA" style=text-align:center
! ! colspan="2" |Bilabial ! colspan="2" |Labiodental ! colspan="2" |Alveolar ! colspan="2" |Velar |
| Plosive
|p |b | | |t |d | | |k |ɡ |ʔ |
|---|
| Nasal
| |m | | | |n | | | colspan="2" |ŋ | |
| Fricative
| colspan="2" | |f |v | colspan="2" |s | |ɣ | colspan="2" | | |
| Affricate
| colspan="2" | | | |t͡ʃ |d͡ʒ |ʒ | | colspan="2" | | |
| Approximant
| colspan="2" |w | colspan="2" | | colspan="2" | |j | | colspan="2" | | |
| Lateral approximant
| colspan="2" | | colspan="2" | | colspan="2" |l | | | colspan="2" | | |
= Vowel inventory =
References
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{{Languages of Cameroon}}
{{Grassfields Bantu languages}}
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Category:Languages of Cameroon
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