Mesaka | |
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Ugarə | |
Native to | Cameroon |
Native speakers | (14,000 cited 1982)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | iyo |
Glottolog | mesa1245 |
Mesaka, or Ugarə, is a Tivoid language spoken in Cameroon.
Batomo may be a separate language, or it may be the same as Motomo (Oliti, Matchi), a dialect of Iceve-Maci (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).
Phonology
[edit]Vowels
[edit]Vowel length is often contrastive in sequences of two similar vowels. Sequences of dissimilar vowels are not observed unless there's a consonant in-between.
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | ɨ | u |
Close-mid | e | o | |
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
Open | ä |
Mesaka is also a tonal language with two tones: high and low.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Mesaka at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Blench, Roger M. (November 2011). "The Tivoid languages: Classification and Comparative Word List" (PDF). Retrieved 21 July 2022.