Mambila language

Mambila bụ usoro asụsụ na-agbasa na Naịjirịa na Cameroon. Ọ bụ otu n'ime asụsụ Mambiloid, alaka nke BenueʹCongo.

Olumba ndị a ma ama bụ Barup, Bang, Dorofi, Gembu, Hainari, Kabri, Mayo Ndaga, Mbamnga, Tamien, Warwar (na Nigeria); Sunu Torbi (Torbi), Ju Naare (Gembu), na Cameroon, Ju Ba na Langa. Mambila nwere ọtụtụ aha, nke, ewezuga aha olumba, gụnyere Bea, Ble, Juli, Lagubi, Nor, Nor Tagbo, Tongbo, na mkpoputa Mabila, Mambere, Mambilla.

Ndị na Tep na ndị na-asụ ụdị Mambila ndị ọzọ na-ewerekarị Tep dị ka olumba, mana ọ bụ ezie na ndị na-asụ Tep bụ agbụrụ Mambila, okwu ha anaghị aghọta ụdị ndị ọzọ. N'ihe gbasara nhazi asụsụ ọ nwere ike ịka mma ịkpọ ya asụsụ Mambiloid dị iche. Lee ntụaka Connell n'okpuru

Ndị na-eji ụrọ eme ihe n'etiti ndị Mambila na-asụ Somyev, asụsụ Mambiloid yiri ya, ọ bụ ezie na nke a fọrọ nke nta ka ọ kwụsị.

 Ọmụmụ ụdaolu 

 Mkpụrụedemede 
N'ihuCentralNlaghachiN'akụkụiỌdịdịɯuN'etiti etitinaoMepee n'etitiỌ bụỌ bụ n'afọEmeghea

 A pụkwara ịnụ /i/ dị ka [ɪ] n'ọnọdụ dị iche iche.

E nwere ihe omume nke njikọta ụdaume fricativized dị nso mgbe ọtụtụ ụdaume bu ụzọ. Alveolo-palatal fricative na ụdaume /i, ɨ/ dị ka [Xi, Xi], na ụda ezé egbugbere ọnụ na /ɯ/ dị ka. Nanị ụdaume /b, f, t, d, n, l, ʃ, k/ na-anụ ụdaume fricativized [bī, ʃī, fv, tv, dv, nv, lv, kv].

 Mkpụrụ okwu 
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 /d/ nwere ike ịnwe allophones nke [ɾ, r, ɺ], n'etiti ndị ọkà okwu dị iche iche. /k/ nwere ike ịnwe allophone nke [x] mgbe ọ na-eme na ọnọdụ intervocalic ma ọ bụ post-vocalic.

 Ihe odide 

 [Ihe e dere n'ala ala peeji] Asụsụ ndị na-anwụ anwụ nke ókèala Nigeria-Cameroon. Na Asụsụ Ndị Na-apụ n'anya n'Africa, nke M. Brenzinger dezigharịrị. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
 [Ihe e dere n'ala ala peeji] Iguzosi ike n'ezi ihe nke Mambiloid. Na Proceedings of WOCAL97 (Second World Congress of African Linguistics), nke E. Wolff dezigharịrị. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
 [Ihe e dere n'ala ala peeji] Language Ecology na Language Endangerment: ihe mere na Nigeria-Cameroon Borderland. Journal of West African Languages XXXVII (1):1X11.
 Connell, Bruce, Zeitlyn, David, Griffiths, Sascha, Hayward, Laura na Marieke Martin. 2021. "Language ecology, language endangerment, and relict languages: Case studies from Adamawa (Cameroon-Nigeria)" Open Linguistics 7(1): 244-300. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2021-0011 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.151515/oply-2021-001/html