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(Redirected from Zina language)
Chadic language spoken in Cameroon
Jina is spoken in Zina commune, located just to the south of Logone-Birni commune. Muxule is spoken in a few villages to the north of Logone-Birni (department of Logone-et-Chari, Far North Region) by 1,500 speakers. The people of Zina claim to understand Lagwan and Munjuk better than Muxule.
Jina is analysed as only having two phonemic vowels; /a/ and /ə/.
References
Jina at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN9789956796069.
Tourneux, Henry (October 2001). Le système consonantique des langues dites "kotoko". 1st Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Language Family (in French). Leipzig. pp. 115–135.
Tourneux, Henry (August 2000). Le système vocalique dans le groupe "kotoko". 3ème Congrès mondial de linguistique africaine (in French). Lomé. pp. 69–77.
