Ndoro language
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Ndoola (Ndoro) or Njoyamɛ in Cameroon is a Bantoid language of Nigeria, with several thousand speakers in Cameroon. It is either among or related to the Mambiloid languages.
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| oral | labialised | |||||
| Plosive | p b | t d | tʃ dʒ | k g | kʷ gʷ | ʔ |
| Prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ⁿdʒ | ᵑg | ᵑgʷ | |
| Fricative | f v | s z | ʃ | h | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ŋʷ | |
| Approximant | w | l, r | ʎ, j |
Ndoro also has five tones; high, mid, low, falling, and rising.
Morphology
Ndoola nouns can have both prefixes and suffixes attached to them, although not for all nouns. Most nouns do not mark the plural, and the ones that do most commonly indicate plurality using a suffix.
Pronouns
| sing. | plur. | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | nímə̀ | nájā |
| 2nd | níbâ | nɨnjīnā |
| 3rd | wūnī | nɛ́bū |