Iceve-Maci language
Tivoid language of Cameroon and Nigeria
Ceve | |
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Oliti | |
Iceve | |
Native to | Cameroon, Nigeria |
Native speakers | (12,000 cited 1990)[1] |
Language family | Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bec |
Glottolog | icev1238 |
Ceve[2] | |
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People | Baceve |
Language | Iceve |
Ceve (Iceve), or Iceve-Maci, is a Tivoid language of the Cameroons. The divergent dialects are Ceve proper (Becheve), and Maci (Matchi, Oliti).
Writing system
a | b | c | d | e | ɛ | f | g | gb | gh | h | i | k | kp | l | m | n | ŋ | o | ɔ | p | s | t | u | ʉ | v | w | y | z |
Multigraphs
Digraphs | mb | nd | ng | ny | nz | ŋw | ŋm |
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IPA | mb | nd | ŋg | nj | ndz | ŋw | ŋm |
Trigraph | mgb | ||||||
IPA | ŋmgb |
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Tone indication
Notation | á | à or a | â | ă | àâ |
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Tone description | High | Low | Falling | Rising | Falling-rising |
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Phonology
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Consonants
Labial | Alveolar/Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Glottal | |
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Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ŋm | ||
Plosive | p b mb | t d ⁿd | k g ŋg | kp gb ŋmgb | ||
Affricate | t͡s ~ t͡ʃ d͡z ~ d͡ʒ ⁿd͡z | |||||
Fricative | f v | s ~ ʃ | h | |||
Approximant | l | j ɲj | w ⁿw |
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | ɨ | u |
Near-close | ʊ | ||
Close-mid | e | o | |
Open/Open-mid | a | ɔ |
Tones
There are 5 tones: high, low, falling, rising and rising-falling.
References
- ^ Ceve at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
- ^ "Va, Sayegh Iceve!". SIL International. 15 September 2022.
- ^ a b c "Iceve-Maci language and alphabet". www.omniglot.com. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
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