Fanji language
| Fanji | |
|---|---|
| Bafanji | |
| Chuufi | |
| Region | Cameroon |
| Ethnicity | Bafanji |
Native speakers | 17,000 (2008)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bfj |
| Glottolog |
bafa1249[2] |
The Fanji language, Chuufi (Nchufie), is the language of the Bafanji people in the Northwest Region of Cameroon.[1][3] There are approximately 17,000 speakers. The language has a rich system of tonal morphology, including reduplication involving adjectives.
Sounds
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Stop | plain | p | t | t͡ʃ | c͡ç | k |
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | t͡ʃʰ | c͡çʰ | kʰ | |
| prenasalized[decimal 1] | mb | nd | nd͡ʒ | ɲɟ | ŋɡ | |
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | ç | |
| voiced | z | ɣ | ||||
| Approximant | central | j | w | |||
| lateral | l | ʎ | ||||
- ↑ The prenasalized stops may also be considered voiced with redundant prenasalization.
References
- 1 2 Fanji at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bafanji". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Silverman (1995:57)
- ↑ Silverman (1995:58)
- Silverman, Daniel (1995), "Optional, conditional, and obligatory prenasalization in Bafanji", Journal of West African Languages 25: 57–62
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