Ngaʼka language

Ngaʼka
Ngaʼka
Bali
Mungaʼka
Native to	Cameroon
Region	Bali Nyonga
Ethnicity	Chamba
Native speakers	(50,000 cited 1982)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Grassfields Eastern Grassfields Mbam-Nkam Nun Ngaʼka; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Bati (Ti); Bali (Li); Bandeng (Nde);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mhk
Glottolog	mung1266

The Ngaʼka language, or Mungaʼka, also known as Bali, is a Grassfields language spoken by the people of Bali Nyonga in Cameroon. They are the descendants of the Chamba of northern Nigeria.^[2]

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Phonology

The sounds of Munga'ka are as follows:^[3]

Consonant inventory

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	Bilabial		Labiodental		Alveolar		Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
Plosive	p	b			t	d			k	ɡ	ʔ
Nasal		m				n			ŋ
Fricative			f	v	s			ɣ
Affricate					t͡ʃ	d͡ʒ	ʒ
Approximant	w						j
Lateral approximant					l

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Vowel inventory

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	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ʉ	u
High-Mid		ə	o
Low-Mid	ɛ	ə	ɔ
Low	a

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References

[1]
Ngaʼka at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
[2]
"The Chamba Migration and the Origin of Bali Nyonga". Archived from the original on 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
[3]
"Mungaka (Fall 2014) | Language Documentation Training Center, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa". ling.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-07.

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Ngaʼka at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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"The Chamba Migration and the Origin of Bali Nyonga". Archived from the original on 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2009-02-03.

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"Mungaka (Fall 2014) | Language Documentation Training Center, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa". ling.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-07.

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