Mumuye language

Mumuye
Yoro
Region	northeastern Nigeria
Ethnicity	Mumuye people
Native speakers	400,000 (1993)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Leko–Nimbari Mumuye–Yendang Mumuye Mumuye
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mzm
Glottolog	nucl1240[2]

Mumuye is the most important of the Adamawa languages. It is classified in the Leko–Nimbari branch of Savanna languages, as Adamawa is no longer considered a valid family. According to Ethnologue, there are multiple dialects: Zinna, Dong, Yoro, Lankaviri, Gola (Bajama), Gongla, Kasaa, Saawa, Jalingo, Nyaaja, Jeng, Gnoore, Yaa, Sagbee, Shaari, Kugong, Mang, Kwaji, Meeka, Yakoko.

Phonology

The Mumuye dialect of the town of Zing has the following inventory:

Zing Mumuye consonants^[3]

	lab.	cor.	pal.	vel.	lab.–vel.
nasal	m	n	ɲ	ŋ	(m͡ŋ)
stop	p b	t d		k ɡ	k͡p ɡ͡b
prestopped nasal	pᵐ bᵐ	tⁿ dⁿ		kᵑ ɡᵑ	k͡pᵐ͡ᵑ ɡ͡bᵐ͡ᵑ
fricative	f v	s z	ʃ ʒ		(?)
nasalized fricative	f̃ ṽ	s̃ z̃	ʃ̃ ʒ̃
sonorant		r	j		w
nasalized sonorant		r̃	(j̃)		w̃

References

1. Mumuye at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nuclear Mumuye". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Shimizu (1983) and Steriade (1993), cited in Kehrein (2002) Phonological Representation and Phonetic Phasing