Fe'fe' language

Fe'fe'
Nufi, Fotouni, Bafang[1]
Fe'efe'e
Native to Cameroon
Region Haut-Nkam (Upper Nkam)
Ethnicity Bamileke Fe'efe'e
Native speakers
ca. 140,000 (2005)[2]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 fmp
Glottolog fefe1239[3]

Fe'fe' or Fe'efe'e, also known as Nufi and Bafang, is a Southern Bantoid language spoken in Cameroon, around the town of Bafang. It was one of the four languages selected for option at the Collège Libermann at Douala (along with Duala, Basaa, and Banjun).[4]

Writing system

Fe'fe Alphabet
Uppercase A B C D E Ə F G Gh H I J K L M N Ŋ O P S Sh T U Ʉ V W Y Z Zh ʼ
Lowercase a ɑ b c d e ə f g gh h i j k l m n ŋ o p s sh t u ʉ v w y z zh ʼ

References

  1. OLAC resources in and about the Fe'fe' language. Open Language Archives.
  2. Fe'fe' at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Fe'fe'". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. Patrick Renaud, Le Français au Cameroun in: Le Français hors de France sous la direction de A. Valdman, Editions Honoré Champion, Paris, 1979.

External links

Fe'fe' language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator


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