Kombe | |
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Ngumbi | |
Native to | Equatorial Guinea |
Ethnicity | Kombe people |
Native speakers | 9,200 (2011) |
Language family | Niger–Congo? |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nui |
Glottolog | ngum1255 |
Guthrie code | A.33b |
The Kombe language, or Ngumbi, is a Coastal Bantu language spoken by the Kombe people of Equatorial Guinea, one of the Ndowe peoples of the coast. It is mutually intelligible with Yasa.
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | |
prenasal vl. | ᵐp | ⁿt | ᶮc | ᵑk | ||
voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ||
prenasal vd. | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᶮɟ | ᵑɡ | ||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | h | ||
voiced | v | z | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
Trill | r | |||||
Approximant | w | l | j |
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i iː | u uː | |
Mid | e eː | o oː | |
Open | a aː |
References
- Kombe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
External links
Languages of Equatorial Guinea | |
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