Gbeya | |
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Native to | Central African Republic |
Native speakers | (ca. 250,000 cited 1996–2005)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:gbp – Gbaya-Bossangoasqm – Sumadek – Dek (duplicate of Suma) |
Glottolog | gbey1244 dekk1240 |
Gbeya (Gbɛ́yá, Gbaya-Bossangoa) is a Gbaya language of the Central African Republic. Ethnologue reports it may be mutually intelligible with Bozom.[2]
Suma (Súmā) is a language variety closely related to Gbeya.[3]
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Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labialvelar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | k͡p | ʔ | ||
voiced | b | d | ɡ | ɡ͡b | ||||
prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | ᵑᵐɡ͡b | ||||
ingressive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||||
Nasal | preglottalized | ˀm | ˀn | |||||
plain | m | n | ŋ | ŋ͡m | ||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | h | ||||
voiced | v | z | ||||||
Lateral | l | |||||||
Tap/Flap | ⱱ | ɾ | ||||||
Approximant | j | w |
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Close-mid | e | o | |
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
Open | a |
References
- ^ Gbaya-Bossangoa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Suma at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Dek (duplicate of Suma) at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) - ^ Samarin, William J. (1966). The Gbeya language: Grammar, texts, and vocabularies (PDF). ASIN B000S2UYWE. hdl:1807/67174. OCLC 897343. Book reviewed in both Courtenay, Karen (1 January 1968). "Review of The Gbeya Language: Grammar, Texts, and Vocabularies". Language. 44 (2): 420–423. doi:10.2307/411642. hdl:1807/67174. JSTOR 411642, and Crabb, David W. (1969). "The Gbeya Language: Grammar, Texts, and Vocabularies . William J. Samarin". American Anthropologist. 71 (2): 365–366. doi:10.1525/aa.1969.71.2.02a00600.
- ^ Suma materials from Raymond Boyd
- ^ Samarin, William J. (1966). The Gbeya Language Grammar, Texts, and Vocabularies (PDF). University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles.
External links
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