Language name: |
LAME |
UPSID number: |
4376 |
Alternate name(s): |
ZIME |
Classification: |
Afro-Asiatic, Chadic |
This language has |
38 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.361710818 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: |
p
t
k
?
b
d
g
mb
nd
Ng
ts
dz
ndz
f
h
v
hh
s
z
hlF
lF
m
n
N
r[
l
j
w
i
e
a
o
u
ai
eo
ao
b*
d*
|
Comment: |
Lame is spoken in Benoue Department of Cameroon along the Chad border. Non-high vowels have a rounded schwa variant in initial syllables of some disyllables and reduplicated forms. Vowels are nasalized before velar nasal and the nasal is dropped in some forms. Sachnine (1982) suggests positing a series of nasalized vowels. There are 3 level tones, but strong dependence between initial consonants and tone in verbal forms. Intervocalic voicing of obstruents is strongly influenced by initial voicing. |
Source(s): |
Sachnine, M. 1982. Le Lame: Un parler zime du Nord-Cameroun (langue tchadique): Phonologie - Grammaire. Societe d'Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France: Langues et Cultures Africaines, 1. With l'Agence de Cooperation Culturelle et Technique. |