Mpade language

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Mpade
Spoken in: Cameroon, Chad 
Region: Far North Province, Cameroon; west Chad
Total speakers: 18,366
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Chadic
  Biu-Mandara
   B
    B.1
     Kotoko
      Mpade
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: –
ISO 639-3: mpi
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Mpade is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects are Bodo, Digam, Mpade, Shoe, and Woulki. [1]

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[edit] Phonology

[edit] Consonants

Mpade has the following consonants. [2]

Labial Coronal Palatal Velar Glottal
Plain Labialized
Stops and
affricates		 Voiceless p t tʃ k kʷ
Voiced b d dʒ g gʷ
Ejective ts' tʃ' k' kʷ'
Implosive ɓ ɗ
Prenasalized mb nd ŋg
Fricatives Voiceless f s ʃ h
Voiced z
Nasals m n
Lateral l
Trill r
Semivowels j w

[edit] Vowels

Mpade has the following vowels. [3]

front back
unrounded		 back
rounded
High i ɨ u
Non-High e a o

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  2. ^ Allison 2006.
  3. ^ Allison 2006.

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