Moba language
| Moba | |
|---|---|
| Moba–Bimoba | |
| Native to | Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso |
| Ethnicity | Moba |
Native speakers | 440,000 (2004–2012)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Latin (Moba alphabet) Moba Braille | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:mfq – Mobabim – Bimoba |
| Glottolog | moba1243 |
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Moba or Moba–Bimoba is a major language of the Moba people of Togo and Ghana. However, in Ghana only 60% of ethnic Bimoba speak the language. There are also about 2,000 Moba speakers in Burkina Faso. It has two dialects (Moba In Togo and Burkina Faso and Bimoba in Ghana). The language cluster is also known as Moba–Bimoba.
Classification
[edit | edit source]Moba is spoken by the Moba people, a subgroup of the Gurma people. Moba is part of the Gurma subgroup of the Gur languages. It is related to the Konkomba language of the Konkomba people.
Phonology
[edit | edit source]Bimoba has twenty-two consonants and six vowels.[2]
Consonants
[edit | edit source]The singly-articulated consonants of Bimoba are listed below.
| Bilabial | Labio- dental |
Alveolar | Post- alveolar (Palato- alveolar) |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | ɡ | ||||||||
| Affricate | tʃ | dʒ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | h | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
The Bimoba dialect also has four doubly-articulated consonants, all of which involve labial and velar occlusions. One is the labiovelar approximant /w/, and the other three are the voiced and voiceless stops (/gb/, /kp/) and voiced nasal /ŋm/.[2]
Vowels
[edit | edit source]Chanard lists six vowels in Bimoba.[2]
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |
| Close | i | u |
| Close-mid | e | o |
| Open-mid | ɔ | |
| Open | a |
Writing system
[edit | edit source]| a | ã | b | c | d | e | ẽ | ɛ | ɛ̃ | f | g | h | i | ĩ | ɩ | ɩ̃ | j |
| k | l | m | n | ŋ | o | õ | ɔ | ɔ̃ | p | s | t | r | u | v | w | y |
| a | b | ch /tʃ/ | d | e | f | g | gb | h | i | j /dʒ/ | k | kp | l | m | n | ny /ɲ/ | ŋ | ŋm | o | ɔ | p | r | s | t | u | w | y /j/ |
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Moba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Bimoba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ a b c d Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Peace Corps Togo 2010.
Works cited
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External links
[edit | edit source]Moba dictionary : https://www.webonary.org/moba
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