Misplaced Pages

Ntcham language

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Bassar language) Gur language spoken in Togo and Ghana Not to be confused with Bassari language (Senegal).
Ntcham
Basari
Native toTogo, Ghana
EthnicityGurma
Native speakers390,000 (2004–2013)
Language familyNiger–Congo?
Writing systemLatin (Basari alphabet)
Basari Braille
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
bud – Ntcham
aks – Akaselem
Glottologntch1241

Ntcham, or Basari, is a language of the Gurma people in Togo and Ghana. Akaselem (Tchamba) is frequently listed as a separate language.

Phonology

The phonology used by Chanard and Hartell is given below. Abbott and Cox (1966) had a similar phonology, though the non labial-velar voiceless plosives were analyzed as aspirated, and vowel length was not distinguished. Badie (1995) analyzes /t͡ʃ/ and /d͡ʒ/ as /c/ and /ɟ/ and also includes phonemic /ɱ/, vowel lengths, and nasalized vowels.

Consonants

Consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Labial-
velar
Plosive/Affricate voiceless p t k kp
voiced b d d͡ʒ g gb
Fricative f s
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ ŋm
Trill r
Approximant l j w

Vowels

Vowels
Front Back
Close i u
Close-mid
Open-mid ɔ
Open a

Tones

Ntcham also has high, low, and mid tones.

Writing System

This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Ntcham language" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Ntcham Alphabet
Majuscules A B C D EE F G GB I J K KP L
Minuscules a b c d ee f g gb i j k kp l
Majuscules M N NY Ŋ ŊM OO Ɔ P S T U W Y
Minuscules m n ny ŋ ŋm oo ɔ p s t u w y

Long vowels are indicated by doubling the letter ‹aa, ii, ɔɔ, uu› and two vowels are always long ‹ee, oo›. The tones are represented by acute accents for high tone and grave accents for low tone, on the vowels and the consonants m, n, b, l : ‹ḿ, ń, b́, ĺ›, ‹m̀, ǹ, b̀, l̀›.

References

  1. Ntcham at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
    Akaselem at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. Green, Christopher; Moran, Steven (2019). Moran, Steven; McCloy, Daniel (eds.). "Ntcham sound inventory (GM)". PHOIBLE. 2.0. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Retrieved 2024-09-24., citing Abbott, Mary; Cox, Monica (1966). Collected field reports on the phonology of Basari. Univeristy of Ghana.
  3. Green, Christopher; Moran, Steven (2019). Moran, Steven; McCloy, Daniel (eds.). "Ntcham sound inventory (GM)". PHOIBLE. 2.0. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Retrieved 2024-09-24., citing Badie, Manglibè Joseph (1995). Contribution a une etude morphosyntaxique du N'cam (PhD thesis). University of Paris VII.
  4. ^ Chanard, Christian; Hartell, Rhonda L. (2019). Moran, Steven; McCloy, Daniel (eds.). "Ntcham sound inventory (AA)". PHOIBLE. 2.0. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
Languages of Ghana
Official language
Creole languages
Government-sponsored
Indigenous languages
Gur
Kwa
Mande
Others
Sign languages
Immigrant languages
Languages of Togo
Official language
National languages
Working languages
Indigenous
languages
Gbe
Gur
Kwa
Yoruboid
Other
Gur languages
Central Gur
Oti–Volta
Eastern
Western
Gurma
Other
Bwa
Gurunsi
Eastern
Northern
Western
Others
Senufo
Northern
Central
Southern
Kulango
Wara–Natyoro
Others


Stub icon

This article about Gur languages is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: