Kemezung language
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Kemezung (Dumbo, Dumbu, Dzumbo, Kumaju) is a Southern Bantoid (Eastern Beboid) language of Cameroon. According to Ethnologue, it's 85% lexically similar to Bebe.
Consonants
Kemezung has 19 "unmodified" consonants. Cox also claims Kemezung has labialized, palatalized, and prenasalized consonants but does not list all of them.
| Labial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Labial–velar | Glottalic | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | t | k | k͡p | |||
| voiced | b | d | g | g͡b | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | |||||
| voiced | d͡z | ||||||
| Fricative | f | s | h | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Approximant | l | j | w |
Vowels
Kemezung has 9 phonemic vowels.
Tone
Kemezung also has 7 (or possibly 8) tones. There are three level tones (high, mid, and low), three falling tones (high-low, mid-low, and long mid-low), and one or two rising tones (low-mid and possibly mid-high).
Notes
- Blench, Roger (2011). (PDF). Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.
- Brye, Edward; Brye, Elizabeth (2004). (PDF). SIL. Archived from (PDF) on 2014-09-07.
- Cox, Bruce (2005). (PDF). Yaoundé: SIL. Archived from (PDF) on 2023-11-06.
- Smoes, Christopher L. (PDF). SIL. Archived from (PDF) on 2023-12-08.