| Language name: | FE?FE? |
| UPSID number: | 4148 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Niger-Kordofanian, Bantoid |
| This language has | 25 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.425809313 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | "t k ? b "d g tS dZ f h v "s "z m "n N w i "e a+ a_ "o "o( u uu |
| Comment: | Fe?fe? is spoken in the Haut-Nkam department of Cameroun. The inventory given corresponds to the underlying segments proposed by Hyman (1972). Voiced stops only appear as such following nasal prefixes; elsewhere they are voiceless stops or voiced sonorants (/d/->[l]). Vowels have generally more open variants in closed syllables. As with segments, the tones of Fe?fe? show considerable surface variation which can be reduced to a small number of underlying contrast, essentially high and low levels. |
| Source(s): | Hyman, L.M. 1972. A Phonological Study of Fe?fe? - Bamileke (Studies in African Linguistics, Supplement 4). University of California, Los Angeles. |