Mundabli-Mufu (Ngɔ Njan)

Mundabli-Mufu is member of the Eastern Beboid group of Southern Bantoid languages. It is spoken by about 500 people in the villages of Mundabli and Mufu to the northeast of Wum in the Fungom subdivision in south of the Menchum Department in the northwest of the North West Region of Cameroon. It is considered endangered, however efforts are being made to revitalize it.

Mundabli-Mufu is also known as Buu, Ji or Mufu. Each village has its own dialect: Mundabli (Ngɔ Njan [ɲɔ̄ ndʒa᷆n]) in Mundabli, and Mufu (Ngo Nsoh) in Mufu. A closely-related language, known as Buu, is spoken in the nearby village of Buu.

Mundabli-Mufu alphabet

Download an alphabet chart for Mundabli-Mufu (Excel)
Details of the Mundabli-Mufu alphabet (PDF) provided by Wolfram Siegel

Notes

Before i and u, b is pronounced [bᵝ], k is pronounced [kᶲ], and t is pronounced [tˢ] or [tʰ].
h, p and z are used in loanwords and foreign names.
i is pronounced [ɪ] in closed syllables
At end of syllables of imperfective stem forms, i = [i̤], o = [o̤], u = [ṳ] and ʉ = [ɯ̤] or [ɨ̤].
When they appear before other consonants, m = [m̩] and n = [n̪̩]; at the ends of words m = [m̥] and n = [n̥]
Consonants followed by w are labialised and those followed by y are palatalised.
y is pronounced [ʝ] before i

Links

Information about Mundabli-Mufu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundabli-Mufu_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundabli
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/boe
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mund1328
http://www.language-archives.org/language/boe
https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/access/item%3A2943631/view

Bantoid languages

Abon, Bafanji, Bebe, Bekwarra, Daka, Ipulo, Isu, Jagham, Jarawa, Kemezung, Kenyang, Ki, Koshin, Kung, Mambila, Mbe, Mbuʼ, Medumba, Metaʼ, Mundabli-Mufu, Pinyin, Tiv, Yambeta

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page created on 21.04.26. Last modified: 21.04.26

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