Afade language
| Afade | |
|---|---|
| Afaɗə | |
| Native to | Cameroon, Nigeria |
| Region | Far North Province, Cameroon; Borno State, Nigeria |
Native speakers | 5,000 in Cameroon (2004)[1] unknown number in Nigeria |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aal |
| Glottolog | afad1236 |
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Afade (Afaɗə) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in eastern Nigeria and northwestern Cameroon.[1]
Classification
[edit | edit source]Afade is a member of the Biu-Mandara group of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. It is related to the Cameroonian languages Mpade, Maslam, Malgbe, Mser, and Lagwan.
Geographic distribution
[edit | edit source]Ethnologue
[edit | edit source]The speakers of Afade are the indigenous Kotoko people of Cameroon and Nigeria. According to Ethnologue, in Cameroon, it is spoken in the far North region: Logone-and-Chari division, south Makari subdivision, Afade area. The language is spoken by 6,700 Cameroon speakers. In Nigeria, Afade is spoken by 40,000 speakers in Borno State, Ngala LGA, 12 villages. There are no known dialects.
ALCAM (2012)
[edit | edit source]In Cameroon, Afade is spoken in the southern part of Makari commune, centered on the town of Afade and extending into Logone-Birni (Logone-et-Chari department, Far North region). It is spoken mainly in Nigeria.[2]
Phonology
[edit | edit source]| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labial-velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Tenuis plosive | p | t | k | kp | ʔ | |||
| Voiced plosive | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ɡb | ʔ | ||
| Ejective | pfʼ | t̪θʼ | cʼ | kʼ | ||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||||
| Fricative | f | s ɬ | ʃ | h | ||||
| Resonant | l r | j | w |
Afade has a large inventory of consonants, including ejectives, implosives, and labial-velar stops. The vowels of Afade are /i u e ɤ o ɛ ɔ a ɑ/. /a/ is front, rather than central.[3]
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Afade at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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- ^ Bouny, P. 1977. Inventaire phonetique d'un parler Kotoko: le Mandagué de Mara. In Caprile, Jean-Pierre (ed.), Etudes Phonologiques Tschadiennes, 59–77. Paris: Société d'Études linguistiques et anthropologiques de France.
References
[edit | edit source]- P. Bouny. 1977. "Inventaire phonetique d'un parler Kotoko: le Mandagué de Mara," Etudes Phonologiques Tschadiennes. Ed. Jean-Pierre Caprile. Paris: SELAF. Pages 59–77.
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