Yambeta Language
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Yambeta or Nigi is a
Southern Bantoid Southern Bantoid (or South Bantoid) is a branch of the Bantoid language family. It consists of the Bantu languages along with several small branches and isolates of eastern Nigeria and west-central Cameroon (though the affiliation of some branch ...
language of
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Phonology

There are 20 contrastive consonants in Yambeta. The glottal stop occurs only in word-final position and is elided intervocalically. All other consonants, except /t͡ʃ/ and /w/ as well as the prenasalized stops, may be word-final. All stops are voiceless word-initial and word-final, and voiced intervocalically or following a nasal. There are two vowel sets in Yambeta. The most common noun syllable structure is CVC.Boyd, V. L. (2015).
The phonological systems of the Mbam languages of Cameroon with a focus on vowels and vowel harmony
' (pp. XVIII+-394). Utrecht: LOT.


References

Mbam languages Languages of Cameroon {{Mbam-lang-stub