Mundang is an

Mbum language Mbum Proper (also Mboum, Buna, Mboumtiba and Wuna) is a Adamawa–Ubangi language of Central Africa. It is spoken by about people in Cameroon and the Central African Republic. History The Mbum language is spoken by the Mbum people who inhabit ...

of southern

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and northern

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, spoken by the

Mundang people The Mundang people are an ethnic group in West Africa who live in parts of Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria. They speak the Mundang language, a subset of Mbum languages. Historically, the Mundang were an agricultural people; in the beginning of the 20t ...

. The Gelama dialect of Cameroon may be a separate language.

Distribution

Mundang, spoken in Cameroon by 44,700 speakers (SIL 1982), is mainly spoken in

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department, Far North Region, in the communes of Mindif, Moulvouday, and Kaélé. It is also spoken to a lesser extent in the south of Mayo-Kebi, in the east of

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commune (

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department, Northern Region), towards the Chadian border. Mundang of Lere (in Chad) and Mundang of Cameroon (centered in Lara and Kaélé) are highly similar.

Phonology

Consonants

* may also be heard as laryngealized among speakers. * can also be heard as two laryngealized allophones . * Sounds may be heard as fricatives in intervocalic positions. * may be heard as palatal when preceding . * can also range to a retroflex among dialects or a trill when geminated.

Vowels

* may also range to a close .

Writing system

Nasalization is marked by a tilde: ã, ẽ, ə̃, ĩ, õ

References

Languages of Chad Languages of Cameroon Mbum languages {{AtlanticCongo-lang-stub