Nga'ka language

Nga'ka
Nga'ka
Bali
Munga'ka
Native to	Cameroon
Region	Bali Nyonga
Ethnicity	Chamba
Native speakers	(50,000 cited 1982)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Grassfields Eastern Grassfields Mbam-Nkam Nun Nga'ka; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Bati (Ti); Bali (Li); Bandeng (Nde);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mhk
Glottolog	mung1266

The Nga'ka language, or Munga'ka, also known as Bali, is a Grassfields language spoken by the people of Bali Nyonga in Cameroon. They are the descendants of the Chamba of northern Nigeria.^[2]

Phonology[]

The sounds of Munga'ka are as follows:^[3]

Consonant inventory[]

	Bilabial		Labialdental		Alveolar		Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
Plosive	p	b			t	d			k	ɡ	ʔ
Nasal		m				n			ŋ
Fricative			f	v	s			ɣ
Affricate					t͡ʃ	d͡ʒ	ʒ
Approximant	w						j
Lateral approximant					l

Vowel inventory[]

	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ʉ	u
High-Mid		ə	o
Low-Mid	ɛ	ə	ɔ
Low	a

References[]

^ Nga'ka at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ "The Chamba Migration and the Origin of Bali Nyonga". Archived from the original on 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
^ "Mungaka (Fall 2014) | Language Documentation Training Center, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa". ling.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-07.

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[e18-1] Nga'ka at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[2] "The Chamba Migration and the Origin of Bali Nyonga". Archived from the original on 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2009-02-03.

[3] "Mungaka (Fall 2014) | Language Documentation Training Center, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa". ling.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-07.

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Nga'ka
Bali
Munga'ka
Native to	Cameroon
Region	Bali Nyonga
Ethnicity	Chamba
Native speakers	(50,000 cited 1982)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Grassfields Eastern Grassfields Mbam-Nkam Nun Nga'ka
Dialects	Bati (Ti) Bali (Li) Bandeng (Nde)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`mhk`
Glottolog	`mung1266`